Sant Martí de Provençals, Gothic church in Sant Martí district, Barcelona, Spain.
Sant Martí de Provençals is a church with Gothic design elements and a Baroque bell tower in the Sant Martí district. The building sits within a preserved historical complex that includes converted farmhouses around it.
A private chapel dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours stood here in the 11th century; in 1052 it passed to the parish of Santa Maria del Mar and gained collective use. In 1432 the sculptor Joan Aymerich was contracted to build the façade, which included portraits of the donor Joan Sellerer and his wife at the feet of the saint. The right bell tower was added later, and the interior chapels were heavily remodelled in subsequent centuries.
The church takes its name from Saint Martin of Tours, to whom the 11th-century private chapel on this site was already dedicated. The 1432 contract with sculptor Joan Aymerich required him to carve the founder Joan Sellerer and his wife at the feet of the saint on the tympanum; those sculptures, with the images of Saints Peter and Paul added in 1688, have disappeared. Mass is still held daily, Monday to Saturday at 8 pm, and on Sundays and holidays at 9:30 am and noon.
The church stands at plaça d'Ignasi Juliol, where carrer del Fondal de Sant Martí meets carrer de la Selva del Camp. The main entrance is on the west facade; the rectory, joined to a 17th-century farmhouse by a narrow arch, and the cemetery are close by. Mass is held daily Monday to Saturday at 8 pm, and on Sundays and holidays at 9:30 am and noon.
The rectory adjoining the church is a 17th-century masia with two sundials on perpendicular facades, a walled garden and a palm tree; documents attest it once served as an inn. A narrow volume pierced by a round arch lets the street pass beneath it, linking house and church.
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