Église Saint-Maur de Martel, Gothic church in Martel, France.

Église Saint-Maur is a Gothic church of light grey stone blocks, rebuilt from the 14th century. Its left gabled facade has a pointed-arch window filled with stone tracery, beside a square turret with a shallow pyramid roof; a lower aisle roof slopes to a taller octagonal tower with a dark roof at the far right. Rough walls, buttresses and small windows complete it.

The church is first mentioned in the early 13th century, when a 1219 charter was granted in ecclesia sancti Maurri. Romanesque remains include a mid-12th-century tympanum showing the Second Coming, with the Christ, two angels and resurrected figures lifting their tomb slabs. Gothic rebuilding was agreed in 1311, with 4,000 sous tournois pledged over six years, and works likely began after May 1314. In 1480 the church was described as ruined and reduced to the likeness of a barn; repairs were recorded in 1493–1494 and cost over 12,000 livres by 1507.

The name Saint-Maur points to a Benedictine origin, since the parish cure of Martel was appointed by the abbey of Souillac. The town grew at the crossing of the Louchapt–Gluges ferry road and the Souillac–Vayrac road, and a salt route passed nearby, bringing a salt market. The western portal's Romanesque tympanum shows the Second Coming of Christ, carved around the middle of the 12th century.

The church stands in the centre of Martel, on the route through the town; the western portal with its carved tympanum faces the street and is the first element to look at. The nave and the south transept arm, where the Romanesque corbels remain, are seen on foot. Visitors should check locally for opening times, as access depends on the parish.

The Romanesque tympanum of the western portal shows Christ with open arms and visible wounds, flanked by two angels sounding trumpets while the resurrected lift their tomb slabs. It depicts the Second Coming without any separation of souls, Hell or Paradise. Marie-Pasquine Subes-Picot dates it to around 1140-1150, contemporary with the portal of Cahors Cathedral.