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The work on the church of the Abbey aux Dames began in 1062 and was completed in 1130. We start at the bedside, in the 11th century, then we add buttresses. On June 18, 1066, the dedication of the Abbey of the Trinity took place. Since 1865, the Trinity Church has served as a parish church following the transfer of the cult from the Saint-Gilles Church, which was abandoned and then destroyed during the bombardments preceding the liberation of Caen.

The Saint-Jacques et Saint-Philippe church is one of the most beautiful wooden churches in Champagne. Its construction probably dates back to the first half of the 16th century. The most surprising feature is the continuous ceiling in panelling, beautifully decorated with diamond-shaped feet. The stained glass window in the central round window represents the donor and his wife. Dating from the 16th century, this stained glass window is the work of the Troyes glass painting workshops.

Abbey founded in 1152 by Queen Adelaide of Savoy to establish a community of Benedictine sisters living under the rule of Cluny.

The Saint-Jean Soulaines-Dhuys chapel, built mostly in the 16th century, is the smallest half-timbered religious building in Champagne. The porch is a later construction from the 18th century.

The Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Nuisement church, built in the 16th and 17th centuries, is one of the half-timbered churches in Champagne. The church was originally located in Nuisement-aux-Bois, a village that disappeared when Lac du Der was filled with water. It was dismantled piece by piece and rebuilt identically in Sainte-Marie-du-Lac in 1969.

The church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste-au-Béguinage is a Catholic religious building in the Italian-Flemish Baroque style. It was built from 1657 after the Gothic church of the beguinage was plundered by the Calvinists in 1579. The beguinage houses that once stood around the church were destroyed in the 19th century. The church was restored after a fire destroyed its roof structure in 2000.

The Saint-Josse church is a neo-baroque church built in 1867 by the architect Jules-Jacques Van Ysendyck. It is a listed monument since 2009.

The Saint-Julien et Saint-Blaise church, built at the end of the 15th century, replaces a chapel mentioned verbatim in 1140, and is the oldest wooden church in Champagne. The building has an imposing and slender spire and a large transept. Finally, the church has a remarkable carpentry work and houses several altarpieces and beautiful statues.

Saint-Lambert church is a Romanesque church dating from the 11th century. The increase in population necessitated enlargements of the church in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building was restored and took its final shape in 1939.

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.