The church of Saint Pierre Saint Paul is an emblematic church of the post-war reconstruction. The church is the joint work of the architects André Lurçat and Henri Lafitte. It was built to replace the Saint-Pierre church, located on the former Place d'Armes and destroyed by German bombs in 1940.
Located in the village of Dimechaux in the Avesnois, the Saint Maurice church dates from the 12th century. From the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries, it underwent a large number of transformations and restorations. At the heart of this Gothic Gothic building is a funerary stone dating from 1317 which contains the burial places of Chevalier Jean de Courtrai and his wife Katherine.
The Chapel Saint Julien de Dourlers, in the North, dates from the end of the 15th century. Originally, a hospice was attached to it, welcoming travelers, indigents and pilgrims wishing to sustain themselves or find a refuge for the night. Following a fire that devastated the hospice in 1931, only the Chapel of Saint Julien remains; it is now an essential witness of the history of Dourlers.
St Paul's Church in Clairfayts was founded in 1556, on the initiative of the monks of the Abbey of Liessies to which the village belonged. It is a classified Historical Monument since 1920.
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