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The Saint Christopher church is dedicated to Saint Christopher, a martyr, who is the patron saint of travellers. It dominates the town of La Tour-du-Meix in the Jura. The original 12th century building was rebuilt in the 15th century by the abbot of St Claude. The church includes a bell tower and a Romanesque nave extended by a choir leaning against the rock at the top of the ridge. The bell tower contains one of the oldest Jura bells. This church shelters an imposing statue of Saint Christopher.

The Church of Saint-Christophe is located in Mondreville, in Île-de-France. It displays the harmonious coexistence of Romanesque elements in the nave and the Gothic style in the choir and carved 16th century decorations on the nave frame. The building, topped with a small bell tower with an octagonal spire, is endowed with a rich movable heritage such as a statue of the Virgin and Child, from the 15th century.

The Church of Saint-Christophe, registered with the Historical Monuments, is located in Saint-Christophe-en-Bresse in Burgundy-Franche-Comté region. It is one of the few Romanesque churches of Burgundy Bresse. The twelfth century church was ravaged in the sixteenth century and rebuilt in the nineteenth century. It has a nave with three vaulted vessels, a transept and a chevet including an apse and two apsidioles, one of which houses a polychrome wooded statue of the Virgin of Pity, dated to the late fifteenth century.

The Church of Saint-Clair of Saint-Porquier, Occitania was built in the sixteenth century, on the foundations of an older, eleventh century building that was ruined during the Hundred Years War. The building is of Southern Gothic style. It consists of a nave that opens on a three sided choir, flanked with side chapels. An octagonal bell-tower is flanked by a staircase turret. The interior was painted in the late nineteenth century.

The Church of Saint-Claud is located in Saint-Claud, in the region of New Aquitaine. In the eleventh century, the church was attached to the priory Saint-Claud, a barony of the Counts of La Rochefoucauld. At the end of the 14th and early 15th century, they modified the church, adding a crypt to house the sarcophagus of Saint Claud (Clodald), a monk and hermit assimilated to the little son of Clovis.

The Church of Saint-Claude is located in Lherula, in the Hauts-de-France region. It was built in sandstone in the 17th century. Probably originally built in the Romanesque style, it was heavily refurbished during the first half of the nineteenth century. The building houses statues and painting, as well as elements in glazed terracotta and earth, probably made by potters from the village. There is also the Baroque altarpiece that occupies the entire space of the apse.

Small church, of modest dimensions, perched on the top of an urban hill. The interior has been recently restored and its modern style blends easily with the local Toulouse style. Its location in the centre of the old village makes it a small jewel in the landscape.

Small church, of modest dimensions, perched on the top of an urban hill. The interior has been recently restored and its modern style blends easily with the local Toulouse style. Its location in the centre of the old village makes it a small jewel in the landscape.

The neo-Gothic church of St Corentin, located in Glomel, in the Côtes d'Armor is dedicated to Saint-Corentin, patron of Cornwall and Bishop of Quimper. Like most churches in the region, it is set up in a parish enclosure including a church, an ossuary and a calvary. Its construction took place in several stages between the 15th and the 17th centuries. A restoration in the 19th century gave the whole building a consistent and harmonious neo-gothic style.

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.