Church Martin Saint of Metz

The church Saint Martin's day is located in the Commune Frenchwoman of Metz and the department of the the Moselle.

History

The Saint Martin's day church is one of the oldest parishes of Metz. Patron saint of this church was the bishop of Tours which died at the end of the 4th century. One does not know at which time a sanctuary on this site appeared, with the South-western blank of the Gallo-Roman city, the limit of a zone of gardens and vines, who gave his name to the parish: Martin saint with the Fields. This building knew several stages of construction and transformation. The economic prosperity of Metz, powerful commercial city, allowed at the extreme end of the 12th century, the almost total construction of the building. One second transformation campaign, the hinge of the S, allowed the erection of the chorus, the first Sacristie and the Transept, however which was given to Saint Martin's day its first ornament of Vitraux. The 19th century saw the replacement of the old canopies of the chorus by compositions due to the talent of Laurent Maréchal, raises Metz-native Delacroix, and the rebuilding of the tower of the Clocher, however that an unfortunate decision of the municipal officials, destroying the symmetry of the Transept by the amputation of its Southern arm.

Narthex

The Narthex, together of low spans prolonging the Porch, proves to be remarkable. Its construction must date from the end of the 12th century or the beginning of the 13th century, by the primitive pace of its capitals, if one considers of it the character massive of his pillars, and by the whole layout which points out that of the Romance churches or even Carolingians.

The nave

With leaving Narthex, the Nave striking by its rise. Five lines of columns stress the progression towards the crossing of the Transept. The pointed arches of the spans, the abundance of floral decorations, the slim character of the vaults indicate a Champagne influence. The walls of the Nef are broken by a forgery Triforium. Four majestic pillars, of only one jet, delimit before chorus.

Chorus

The chorus testifies to the richness of Blazing art of the beginning of the 16th century, associating with elegance large canopies, the symmetrical provision of the panels of the apse, openwork of geometrical interlacings. The old Vitraux of the chorus were dispersed in the Transept and the side chapels, and were replaced in 1881 by ten tables due to Laurent Maréchal.

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