Church of Saint-Martin
The Church of St Martin of Ids-Saint-Roch is located in the Center-Val de Loire region. Of the first church, thjat built around the year 1000, only the entrance remains. The new building, rebuilt in the thirteenth century, was first placed under the patronage of St. Martin before passing to the patronage of St. Roch in the seventeenth century. The primitive facade still presents the original entrance with its semicircular arch which is surmounted by a double row of claveaux.
About this building
The St Martin Church of Ids-Saint-Roch is located in the Center-Val de Loire region. From the original church, built around the year 1000, only the entrance remains. The new building, rebuilt in the thirteenth century, was first placed under the patronage of St. Martin, and then passed to the patronage of St. Roch in the seventeenth century.
Saint Roch is invoked against contagious diseases (like epidemics of plague, cholera, typhus, Spanish flu etc) against the silicosis of stonecutters, pavers and quarrymen and against animal diseases and vine.
The primitive facade still has the original entrance with its semicircular arch surmounted by a double row of claveaux. The nave, whose frame seems to date back to the thirteenth century, was redone in 1894. It is extended by a choir ending with a flat chevet. The transept is surmounted by a central square stone bell tower covered with a slate roof with four slopes. It seems that there was previously a caquetoire on the south wall.
Inside the church one can admire a painting representing Saint Roch caring for the plague victims, two stalls from the priory of Orsan and statues including a Madonna and Child, one of St John and one of St Roch.
