Église Saint-Martin de Béthisy-Saint-Martin

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Saint Martin Church is a parish Catholic church located in Béthisy-Saint-Martin, France. Its origin is ancient, and its first mention dates back to the early ninth century, but nothing of the first church remains. It was replaced in the second quarter of the 12th century by a Romanesque building, of which remain the elegant bell tower with the stone arrow, the very simple nave, and the western gate in broken arch.

The base of the bell tower has one of the first arches of warheads in the region. A second arch of warheads was built around 1150 above the first span of the choir, while the vault of the south side remained unfinished. At the end of the 13th century, the choir was enlarged: the Romanesque apse was replaced by a Gothic span with a flat bedside, divided by a lateral chapel to the south.

Some time later, already in the 14th century, the north side was rebuilt, but the Hundred Years' War led to an interruption of the construction site, so that the vaulting was undertaken only at the last third of the 15th century, in the flamboyant Gothic style. Then a northern lateral chapel of the choir is built in the extension of the lower side. Thanks to the rise of the arcades...