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EGLISE SAINT MARTIN

Religious building in La Canourgue
  • The parish church of monastic foundation under the patronage of Saint-Martin became a collegiate church of lay canons in the year 1000. The dean gave the collegiate church to the Benedictine monks of Saint-Victor de Marseille who reformed it and kept it until 1789. Only the sanctuary remains, which is one of the most beautiful Romanesque buildings in Gévaudan. Despite the alterations and additions of the 14th and 17th centuries, it retains its identity and in particular its plan,...
    The parish church of monastic foundation under the patronage of Saint-Martin became a collegiate church of lay canons in the year 1000. The dean gave the collegiate church to the Benedictine monks of Saint-Victor de Marseille who reformed it and kept it until 1789. Only the sanctuary remains, which is one of the most beautiful Romanesque buildings in Gévaudan. Despite the alterations and additions of the 14th and 17th centuries, it retains its identity and in particular its plan, characteristic of large pilgrimage churches: a nave flanked by side aisles and an apse* with an ambulatory* on which apsidioles* open. radiant.
    • Monument historique
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