Angers Cathedral

The chapel of the collegiate church was rebuilt by Henry II Plantagenet in the middle of the 11th century on the site of a tower of the Gallo-Roman enclosure. The collegiate church of Saint-Laud in the castle disappeared in 1232, but there is still a church of Saint-Laud which is its heir. In 1869, it was demolished and replaced by the present building, which was consecrated in 1876.

The Church of Saint-Martin is located in Thorigné-d'Anjou, Pays de la Loire region. A Romanesque church, which dates back to the eleventh century, underwent several renovation campaigns in the twelfth, sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Its round and pointed steeple rests on a thirteenth century tower, supported by four buttresses. The choir is covered with a beautiful Gothic ‘Plantagenet’ vault. Inside, one can admire a large curved altarpiece of the eighteenth century.

The Romanesque church Notre Dame de Brissarthe was built in the 11th century on a Merovingian site and the remains of a primitive church. It was the first priory of the Abbey St Serge d'Angers and features an impressive nave. In 1730, lightning struck the tower, partially destroying it. The tower and a presbytery are rebuilt on the south arm of the transept. It was at this time that the priory was dissolved and the church became a simple parish church.