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Saint-Kunibert is the most recent of the twelve Romanesque churches of Cologne. Consecrated in 1247, the church was part of a monastery until 1802. After the Second World War, the church was rebuilt until 1985.

Sankt Lambertus is one of the four Roman Catholic churches of Düsseldorf and is probably the oldest building and a monument of the historic city center. Before the construction of the Gothic part of the building in the fourteenth century, a Romanesque church had stood there for centuries, established even before Düsseldorf became a city in 1288.

St. Laserian's Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral of Leighlin. The cathedral was built in the Middle Ages in place of the abbey church (dated 632). It is one of the smallest of its time. It is Gothic in style - the size of its windows is no larger than a Romanesque window - and has a low square crenellated tower. The northern arm of its transept is in ruins.

In 1011, the construction of a first church started. The furnishings of this pre-Romanesque building were adapted during the 18th and 19th century to match the tastes of the time, but hardly any structural changes were made. At the beginning of the 20th century, the church became too small and the parish decided to build a new and spacious church. Only the thousand year old bell tower has been preserved as a symbol of historical continuity.

The west tower of the Saint Laurentius Church is the only remaining original part of a previous 14th-century Gothic cross church. In 1786, the brick spire was replaced by a slate spire. A three-aisled neoclassical church was designed by Pierre Buyck in 1845, after several proposals to expand the church. The works were carried out in 1846 and 1847.

The St. Lawrence Church is the Reformed-Protestant parish church of the city of St. Gallen. It is estimated that the construction of the first church took place in the middle of the 12th century. The church was for centuries the political, religious and social centre of the city of St. Gallen as a meeting place for citizens of the city. The church is classified as a national protected building.

St. Laurus Church in Janakkala is a medieval sandstone church, probably consecrated in 1520. A wooden church would have already been present on the site in the 13th century. The sacristy and armoury of the church were demolished in the 19th century when it was transformed into an Empire-style cruciform church and a new sacristy was built at the eastern end. The bell tower was built by the church builder Martti Tolpo and was completed in 1785. The church bells date from the 17th and 18th centuries.

St. Lawrence Church is a church built by the Cistercians at the end of the 13th century. According to legend, the builder of the church was the martyred monk Laurentius, who was burnt at the stake by the pagans. Probably in the second quarter of the 15th century, master builders from Tallinn were commissioned to vault the sanctuary. During the Livonian War (1564) the vaults and pillars were destroyed. The church also suffered from the Great Northern War, when, among other things, the church bells were taken away. The present Baroque bell tower was built in 1760, and a comprehensive reconstruction took place in 1889-90 under the direction of Friedrich Axel von Howen.

St. Lawrence Church is one of the largest medieval stone churches in Finland. It was built towards the end of the 15th century and is particularly famous for its 16th-century wall paintings. The first documented mention of a St. Lawrence church in Lohja dates back to 1382, and the present stone church was built between 1470 and 1490. Between 1953 and 1957 the church was restored.

St. Lawrence Church was built at the end of the 13th century as a defensive church with three naves. The first traces of construction of the building date back to the middle of the 13th century. The church is one of the oldest in Estonia and is extremely well preserved in its original form.