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The church of Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur has stood in the In the hollow of the Champagne vineyards, since the twelfth century. In the eighteenth century, a new nave, a choir and late Gothic chapels were added to the building. In the 19th century, a bell tower was added and the nave modified once again. In the 20th century, the wooden ceiling was replaced by a stone ceiling and a new porch tower was built. The interior features many examples of classified furniture.

12th century church, Languedoc Gothic bell tower from the beginning of the 14th century, Romanesque chapel of the rosary. Historic site of the battle of Muret. Edifice enlarged and embellished over the centuries, contains a listed organ with an exceptional sound and some works of art. It should be noted that the reliquaries on either side of the high altar contain the relics of Saint James and Saint Dominic given by Pope Pius IX to Marshal Niel in 1850.

Founded in the twelfth century, the Church of Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur de Courcelles could be called a ‘trundle’ church because it is characterized by the juxtaposition of an old church partially enlarged in 1604, a monumental unfinished choir (1415) and a chapel (1656). Behind the banal 19th century facade century hides high quality furniture: baptismal font, a seventeenth century altarpiece and a magnificent Louis XIV style font of the same period.

The church of Saint-Jacques-sur-Coudenberg, built between 1776 and 1787, is a "royal parish" and, since 1986, the cathedral of the diocese to the Belgian Armed Forces. The 18th century building replaces the castle chapel of the Coudenberg Palace and the church of the Coudenberg Abbey, both destroyed to make way for the church. In 1849, Tilman-François Suys replaced the old campanile with an imperial wooden bell tower with four bells and, in 1851, Jean-François Portaels decorated the pediment with a fresco.

The church of Saint-Jean Berchmans is a neo-Romanesque religious building which is part of the large complex of the Collège Saint-Michel. Built from 1908 to 1912, the church is dedicated to Saint John Berchmans, a young Belgian Jesuit, who was canonized in 1888. The architect Joseph Prémont was inspired by the Rhineland Romanesque basilica Saint-Servais in Maastricht (18th century). The façade is an apse flanked by two towers. Two Romanesque portals open on either side of the false apse. The liturgical and pastoral services are provided by Jesuit fathers.

The church of St Jean de L'Aigle dates from the twelfth century. It has a nave of five spans, extended by a choir (late twelfth century) of three spans. In the fifteenth century, a Gothic bell tower was added, which is decorated with flamboyant Gothic statues. The church wass damaged during the bombings of 1944. Inside, you can admire the wooden altarpiece of the high altar and many classified decorative objects.

St. John the Baptist Church is an art-deco church built in 1931. It replaces a 19th century building, which had become dilapidated and had replaced the old medieval church of the 10th century. The medieval church of St. John the Baptist was destroyed in 1578 when the Calvinists took control of Brussels. In 1834-1836, a new St. John the Baptist church was built according to the plans of the Brussels architect Louis Spaak. However, the new building soon became cramped. In the 1920s, the project for the new church was entrusted to the architect Joseph Diongre. The Church of St. John the Baptist is the first reinforced concrete church in Brussels.

The very old Saint Jean-Baptiste church of Noyers de Gaillefontaine dates from the beginning of the 12th century. It has some exceptional furniture items: a polychrome life-size statue of Saint John the Baptist of the sixteenth and baptismal fonts from the eleventh to twelfth century adorned with small columns.

Saint-Jean-Baptiste de La Feuillée Church (it dates only from 1858-1860, rebuilt but in neo-gothic style) flamboyant by architect Jules Boyer, but it preserves important elements of the previous parish church dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, itself built on the site of an earlier church that disappeared in the 13th century. It has a bell tower with a gallery and an octagonal spire. The door of the south porch comes from the old church, as does one of the windows. Numerous gargoyles decorate the building. It contains ancient statues including that of Saint Houardon and that of Itron Varia Menez Are, a remarkable Piètà and a beautiful high altar. It also preserves 12 very beautiful frescoes and murals which were the subject of an inventory and study in 2000.

The Church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste was built in the neo-gothic style in 1884 following the plans of Clovis Normand, a talented regional architect. It draws its charm from its style of construction.