svatý Martin ve zdi
Czechia
The name tells you where to look. St Martin in the Wall, ecclesia sancti Martini in muro in Latin, was built with its south side pressed against the fortification wall of Prague's Old Town, and the phrase 've zdi', 'in the wall', stuck. The church itself is older than that wall. It went up, probably between 1178 and 1187, in a settlement called Újezd, which after 1187 became Újezd of St Martin. The dates come from that change of name rather than from any surviving building record, so treat them as a reasoned estimate. When the Old Town walls were raised in the thirteenth century, Újezd was split in two. The larger part ended up in what became the New Town, and the smaller part, with the church, became part of the Old Town.
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