Guided tour of the Saint-Martin church
The church of Saint Martin of Mitry-Mory is a major witness of the campaign of church construction in the north of the country of France in the Renaissance. It was built between 1500 and 1550, and its style perfectly represents the transition between flamboyant Gothic and Renaissance style. Although it is still being restored, you can already admire its incredible choir with five chapels, including a chapel built under (and for?) Henri II, who has preserved its decoration sculpted with for example the salamander of his father and his own emblem and monogram. There is also Christ’s recumbent body, which, to be a polychrome plaster of the 19th century, is no less extraordinary, as well as a ceiling with an enigmatic decoration. In another chapel a remarkable legend of Saint Roch, from the 16th century. Further on, a rich 17th and 18th century furniture. These elements are presented through an exhibition and conference visits. But the church of Saint Martin houses above all a baroque organ, perhaps the most beautiful of Île de France. Built in 1649 by one of the best workshops in France, enlarged in 1750 by the House Clicquot, it escaped the restorations of the nineteenth century, so that it has retained most of its original material, which can make it compete with Poitiers or Souvigny. We can also admire the magnificent seventeenth buffet, which also reached us almost intact. A free entrance concert will be given on Sunday afternoon.