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The church of Saint Cornély de Carnac has a reliquary bust of the saint in gilded wood so heavy, it seems, that it takes 4 people to lift it. The church is one of the most beautiful examples of the Renaissance style in Morbihan (17th century). One can appreciate its side porch (1792) surmounted by a granite baldachin, apparently carved from a local menhir. In the shape of a royal crown, it is the work of a stonemason from Baud named Kergoustin.

Mentioned as early as the 12th century, the church was completely rebuilt at the end of the 15th century or the beginning of the 16th century, following the damages of the Hundred Years War.

The Saint-Cyr-Sainte-Julitte church- or Pierre Ronde church - is one of the oldest buildings in Normandy, being built in the 10th century. In the 15th century, this Carolingian building, destroyed by a fire, was covered with an exceptional frame on wooden posts with a paneled vault covered with polychrome paintings. If the church has lost many of its original decorative elements, its beauty, characteristics and colors can still be admired thanks to the magnificent restoration, mirroring the original, carried out by an association of passionate volunteers.

The church of Saint-Cyril and Methodius was built between 1926 and 1936, next to a former chapel, which dates back to 1884. In the basement of the temple are the graves of the soldiers who fell in the First World War. In 2006, the dome of the church, unfinished due to lack of funds, was finally completed.

The church of Saint-Denis is recognisable by its enormous 13th-century bell tower, the oldest in the North of France. The church was favoured by the Collège de Saint-Omer which was run by English Jesuits. Many English and American Catholic families sent their children there to study, despite Queen Elizabeth I's prohibition. The interiors are particularly rich in examples of numerous artistic movements from the 15th to the 19th century. Its classical barrel-vaulted sanctuary, interiors and furnishings date from an 18th-century reconstruction.

In the sixteenth century, the Romanesque church of Saint Denis de Bailleul-le-Soc presented a nave, a transept, a belfry and a choir lit by seven windows. In the eighteenth century the whole building was modified: the portal, the nave and the steeple were rebuilt while the nave was raised. The church has a relic of the True Cross and sculptures (15th century) classified as historical monuments.

The church of Saint-Denis is a religious building whose oldest foundations date back to the 11th century, around the time of the founding of the village of Forest. The present building, which includes the sanctuary dedicated to Saint Alène, dates from the 13th century and is in Gothic style. The bell tower was raised by two floors in the 18th century. In 1925-1926, an important restoration of the ensemble was carried out by Chrétien Veraart, restoring to the building a luminosity that it had lost.

In 1877, Nicolas Adames, the first Bishop of Luxembourg, consecrated the church, which was dedicated to Saint Denis. By the middle of the 20th century, the vaulting had become dilapidated and was replaced by a ceiling of wooden beams. At the same time the wall paintings were removed.

Built from the 11th to the 18th centuries, with alterations in 1860.

The church of St Denis Bazincourt-sur-Epte was, in the tenth century, a chapel dependent on a nearby abbey. It only had a nave, to which 5 spans were added in the twelfth century, and a choir. In the fourteenth century, the chapel became a parish church and in the eighteenth century the church was enlarged and the orientation was changed. There is an altarpiece by J.Carbonnier, an oil painting by Ch.Duchêne and an 18th century clock mechanism.