Église Saint-Martin

English translation

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History

A text from 892 mentions the building. The curacy is at the presentation of the chapter of Saint-Martin de Tours. The building is oriented, with a single nave originally and probably finished, with the repairs of the 15th century, by a chevet with three semi-circular absides whose terminations can still be made out on the north side. The gable facade is pierced by a basket-handle door surmounted by a moulded ogee arch that appears to date from the 15th century. A large wooden canopy leans against this facade. At the former crossing of the transept rises a bell tower whose character is Romanesque. A pierced storey was added to it, no doubt at the end of the Middle Ages. Inside, the primitive nave was without aisles and no doubt covered in roof structure. Of massive design, the square of the transept is composed of four large square piers against which are set engaged columns topped with sculpted capitals (human heads, palmettes, confronted sagittaries, rosette, chequer pattern...). The capitals receiving the springing of the arcatures that surmount the passages giving formerly access to the absidioles are also ornamented (birds, palmettes, sphinxes, lions...). The round arches frame an octagonal dome on squinches. The chevet was remade in the Gothic period.