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Garchy’s Church is known as Saint Martin. The Romanesque-style building dates from the 12th century (1147) and is built on a rectangular plan. In the 16th century a Gothic-style seigneurial chapel was added.
The choir of the church of Garchy is extended by a pentagonal apse, with sides cut with a entablature lined with "heads of nails" and supported by modillions, the building is lit by Romanesque windows.
The Church is classified as a Historical Monument from the beginning of the 20th century (1910), and its bells will also be classified from the middle of the 20th century (1947). The smallest of the two bells dates from the seventeenth century (1684) and the second from the eighteenth century (1712) and have as godfather Louis Millien.
The parish of Garchy already existed in the 12th century (1147) and is one of the four churches that Humbaud, bishop of Auxerre, attributed to the abbey of Saint Lawrence. It was once a "priory-parish priest" of the order of Saint Augustine, and depended directly on the archpriest of Varzy. The parish will then belong to the Benedictine priory of La Charité-sur-Loire.
The church will be called a "jewel of Romanesque art".