Church of Saint-Arnould

The church of Saint Nicolas de Cavillon in the Somme is a country stone building with a low bell tower, a sixteenth century Romanesque nave and a chevet dating from 1781. The interior is covered with a vaulted ceiling, wood capped with sanders carved plant and geometric motifs and blochets adorned with human heads. You can find beautiful polychrome wooden statues from the sixteenth century, next to others made of polychrome plaster in the nineteenth century.

The church of St. James was built from 1837 to 1857 on top of a former medieval church from the mid 15th century which was demolished in 1833. The architect of the new church was François-Auguste Cheussey. During the First World War, the German bombing in 1918 damaged the church and its furnishings, but the church was further devastated during the Second World War and had to be restored afterwards. This task was entrusted to the architect Arduin.

The church of Saint-Germain-l'Écossais is first mentioned in 1131, but the present church was mainly built between 1455 and 1490. From 1855 to 1877, the town's architect, Louis Henry Antoine, carried out a complete restoration of the church. The church was damaged in 1918, at the end of the First World War, by German bombing. It was more seriously damaged during the Second World War, when the German bombardment of 19 May 1940 destroyed the south gable and much of the furniture. The restoration of the building took a long time, from 1957 to 1992.