St. Martin's Church, L'Isle-Adam

The Saint-Martin church is a Catholic parish church located in L'Isle-Adam, France. It is a Renaissance style church of great homogeneity, built between 1487 and 1567 with interruptions, under the direction of at least two different architects. The Gothic influence is still visible in the plan, the structure of the western portal and the ribs of the vaults. A large fire in 1661 left no major traces. The French Revolution led to the loss of the stained glass windows and the mutilation of the statuary, and the restoration work during the third quarter of the 19th century went hand in hand with the complete reconstitution of numerous sculpted elements, sometimes without fidelity to the model. The extensions of the same period, especially the two upper floors of the bell tower and a new chapel of the Virgin to the south, were done in the style of the first Renaissance. The church's furniture, particularly rich, is of various origins and was collected by Abbé Grimot in the 19th century.