Ancienne église paroissiale Saint-Martin

English translation

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History

Village church built in the Romanesque period, composed of a single nave, followed by the choir bay narrower and taller, which is extended by a semicircular apse vaulted in oven vault. In the Gothic period, the church is restored: the choir and perhaps the nave are covered with a roof structure with common rafters bearing trusses. The placement of painted decoration accompanies the restoration of the church. These Gothic paintings adorn the choir and the oven vault of the apse. The walls of the choir take up the cycle of the Passion (14th century), represented chronologically, in a register framed by two decorative borders. Each scene is inscribed in a white quatrefoil which individualizes the episode. The figures stand out against a background alternately ochre yellow or ochre red, scattered with small flowers. A decoration of coloured false voussoirs brings out the wall articulations of the church. The figure of Christ in Majesty, surrounded by the Tetramorph, represented on the apse, must date from the 15th century. A seigneurial chapel is attached to the north wall of the choir, at the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century, and bears traces of a funerary painted decoration from the 17th century.