St. Martin

St Martin, known in Estonian as Martna, belongs to the old Wiek country of western Estonia. A church dedicated to St Martin stood here by the late thirteenth century, within the lands of the bishops of Ösel–Wiek. At the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Bishop Johannes Orgas sponsored work on the stone church, whose north wall bears his arms. Its interior was decorated with painted designs, renewed by a more accomplished artist in the sixteenth century. The parish also included estates belonging to cathedral canons.