Outstanding elements – architecture

Its architectural interest is intimately linked to its historical interest. The peculiarity of St Martin's church is to have a mixture of styles. With the centuries that followed, the church has been redesigned at different times and shows unique architectural peculiarities. This building, like so many others, contains in its walls, in its frames and roofs, in its bell tower, on its floor, the know-how, traces and remains of the generations that preceded us, and, in the light of historical and archaeological research, can reveal many forgotten or unknown secrets.

On the facade, a triplet, set of three grouped bays, a large in the middle flanked by two smaller ones.
The Middle Ages saw it as a symbol of the Trinity.

Accelerated to the choir, rising side, the sacristy, a small semi-entered building taken in the cemetery that surrounded the three-quarter church.
A few steps of stairs allowed access.

Names are found on the funerary slabs, probably displaced during soil restoration.
These names are closely related either by marriage or by function. These general farmers who were tax collectors of the prince of Condé, possessor of the county of Sancerre including the Barony of Vailly.

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The church is above all a sacred place. Its spiritual dimension is the very source of its construction.
The church is a visible witness to the Christian roots of our society.
Who did not feel, when returning to a church outside of a religious office, this feeling of calm bringing peace and recollection.
Our churches are therefore a place of memory for society and the homage to the dead is naturally associated with them.