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The church of Saint-Martin de La Roque-Baignard was originally built in the Romanesque period, it was largely rebuilt in the 16th and 17th centuries. The decorations and interior furniture date from the 18th century. The gabled western façade has a curved entrance. Two buttresses support the façade. The straight buttress is larger. A clock is placed at the level of the roof. Finally, the bell tower has a square base and four dormer windows are present on its roof.

The Saint-Martin church is located in Laversines, in the Oise. The building, dedicated to Saint Martin, consists of a single nave, a choir from the twelfth-thirteenth century and a bell tower of the eleventh century, rebuilt in the seventeenth century that was struck by lightning in 1805. The chapel, dedicated to Saint Fiacre, was the place of pilgrimage of the neighboring parishes. The church has a remarkable Way of the Cross and stained glass windows depicting Saint Anthony, Saint Germain and a Sacred Heart of Jesus

The Church of Saint-Martin is located in Looberghe, in the Hauts-de-France region. The original church, burned by the English in 1435, was rebuilt in the eighteenth century, thanks to a special tax. It has an imposing choir and two lower side chevats whose pilasters accentuate the "eighteenth" silhouette. Inside, one will notice the classified organ, installed in 1715.

The Saint-Martin church is located in Monthuchon, in Normandy. This church has an elongated plan in the shape of a Latin cross, presenting a nave with a single vessel, followed by an avant-choir and a choir at the hemicycle. The only window that survived the bombing of the Normandy landing is at the end of the nave. There is a polychrome pieta of the fifteenth century with the Virgin surrounded by a saint cephalophore.

The Church of Saint-Martin stands in the heart of the citadel of Montmedy. The first mention of the church of Saint-Martin appears in a charter drawn up in 1156, by which the abbey of Orval (Belgium) obtains its patronage.

The Church of Saint-Martin, registered with the Historical Monuments, is located in Moussy-le-Vieux, in Île-de-France. Built in the Gothic style, the building has an elongated plan consisting of a four span nave, which is particularly low and flanked by aisles. The three bay choir, twice as high as the nave, has a chevet with three cut sides. The nave is preceded to the west by a square tower which had to be rebuilt in the 19th century. The church houses many pieces of classified furniture.

The Saint-Martin church is located in Nohant-en-Graçay, in the Center-Val de Loire region. From its twelfth century Romanesque origin, there remains only the tower and thick pillars, decorated with figurations of animals and heads on the capitals. The single paneled nave is followed by a vaulted choir on intersecting primitive ribs.

The Church of Saint-Martin dates from 1836. It has a rectangular plan for the nave and side aisles, and the sanctuary is narrower finishing with a three-sided chevet. Over the entrance, a mosaic can be seen, probably from the Abbey of Wisques. The church has many objects mainly from the 17th century, such as the retable, but there is also a 16th-century statue of Saint Martin and a bronze bell.

The church of Saint-Martin is located in Orignac in Occitanie (Midi-Pyrénées). It is built on a hillock that was the site of an old defensive enclosure from the 12th and 13th centuries. The church, in its present form, dates from the 15th or 16th centuries. The building has a beautiful roof with five pinnacles, that is topped with a bell tower. Inside the church you can see the remarkable woodwork of the Ferrère brothers and several classified objects, including a beautiful ciborium.

The church of Pessac no longer has any architectural remains from the Romanesque period, when the church is attested. It then depended on the chapter of St André de Bordeaux. The name of Saint Martin indicates an ancient origin of this church, before the 12th century. The archaeological excavations, the historical archives and the architectural analysis of the present church, inform us about the history of the building over the centuries. The major elements of the church's decoration are the altarpiece, the tabernacle and the altar, which underwent a major restoration in 1997.