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The Church of Saint Martin Expeditions (Angers, France) series documents the expeditions led by George Forsyth between 1926 and 1936 to Angers, France, to excavate the Church of Saint Martin, built in the ninth century by the son of Charlemagne. Forsyth led several expeditions to St. Martin resulting in the discovery of rare religious artifacts and important architectural data published in The Church of St. Martin at Angers: The architectural history of the site from the Roman Empire to the French Revolution. The excavations in collaboration with William A. Campbell.

The series is arranged in four subseries: Correspondence, Field Work, Visual Materials, and Publication Activities. Materials include field notebooks detailing excavation activities, notes, drawings, and reference material; visual materials such as measured drawings, photographs of the church exterior and interior, and 162 envelopes of negatives of excavation activities; and annotated manuscript drafts, correspondence, and printed materials related to publication efforts. Files in each subseries are arranged alphabetically.