Église Saint-Martin d'Étampes

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The Collège Saint-Martin d'Étampes is a former collegiate Catholic church dedicated to Saint Martin de Tours, located in the French commune of Etampes and the Essonne department. Saint Martin houses one of the three primitive parish altars in the city. His origins are lost in time, and some authors claim that his founder would be Clovis himself.

The college was of considerable importance in the 11th century, when its chapter had no fewer than twelve canons, a dean and a singer. In 1106 King Philip I gave it to the abbey of Morigny. As a result, no canon is named.

Disputes between the abbey and the chapter led to the expulsion of the last canons in 1142. The abbey established a priory near the church, and began its replacement by a larger building. The lower parts of his bedside, with a walk-through and three very deep radiant chapels, surprise with a plan evoking the eleventh century, and are even more Romanesque than Gothic, but the vaulting of warheads is present from the beginning.

Thanks to contacts with the abbey of Saint-Denis, the innovation of the bows-boutants finds one of its first...