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ST. MAUR'S CHURCH

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2024
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2024

A Romanesque church with watchtower rooms, buttresses and an eastern bretèche at the city wall of Martel

Of the Romanesque church founded by the dean of the Souillac monastery, only the portal with its carved tympanum from the middle of the 12th century remains. The Gothic church which replaces it was built during the first half of the 14th century, then largely rebuilt at the end of the Hundred Years' War and increased, at the beginning of the 16th century, by a bell tower, a real defence tower. The church, integrated to the east into the city wall, has watch chambers at the top of the buttresses and a bailey defending the large chevet bay.

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L'Eglise Saint-Maur à Martel
L'Eglise Saint-Maur est adossée aux remparts de la cité médiévale de Martel. Cette église fortifiée présente tours à échauguette, mâchicoulis et tour-clocher de plus de 40 m de hauteur. C'est une très belle église possédant un tympan roman sculpté ainsi qu'un intérieur magnifique avec des panneaux peints, du mobilier et des vitraux également très beaux. Les peintures du XIX ème siècle, restaurées, ornent les murs et les voûtes et restituent l'aspect coloré du Moyen Age. J'ai adoré cette profusion de couleurs relativement surprenante dans un lieu habituellement plutôt austère.

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