Cambrai Cathedral

The Abbey Church of Saint Hugues et Saint Achaire d'Haspres is part of a vast estate: the provostship of Haspres, whose origins go back to the 7th century. Attached to the Abbey of Jumièges in 841 and then to that of Arras in 1024, the provostship is under the authority of a monk. It became an important pilgrimage centre following the arrival of relics of Hugh and Achaire, healers of mental illness, who are symbolized by a spider.

The basilica of Notre-Dame-du-Saint-Cordon was built between 1852 and 1864 by the diocesan architect Alexandre Grigny. Facing south-west, its chevet with an ambulatory and three radiating chapels of Norman inspiration fits into the narrow plot of the Place des Ursulines. The nave, framed by aisles, has five bays. Its three-level elevation evokes the Amiens model and gives the building great transparency. The façade is more austere. The porch bell tower reinterprets the Old Bell Tower of Chartres Cathedral.

St. Martin's Church was built at the beginning of the 20th century on top of an old church itself, replacing a medieval church destroyed in the 1840s. St. Martin's Church, of neo-gothic architecture, is built in red brick and corbelled stone with a high five-bayed nave bordered by two aisles, preceded by a narthex with a statue of St. Anthony. It has a rectangular plan and is topped by a high square bell tower topped by a slender spire covered with slate, like the roof. The portal is surmounted by three groups of windows, a rose window and another group of three twin windows and a clock.