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Progressive and very extensive construction over time: after a fire in the 13th century, the building was rebuilt. Several works to enlarge it followed, notably the construction of the nave in the 10th century, and the construction of the tower in the 16th century.

The church of Saint Vivien was built in the 11th or 12th century. Around the 13th or 14th century, the two bays of the nave were vaulted; the one next to the entrance has its vault intact; the other one barely shows remains of arches. We also know that the church was decorated with paintings. The artists of the time decorated the walls and columns with ochre and yellowish tones.

The church of Saint-Vulfran is a former collegiate church dedicated to Saint Vulfran since the 11th century. It was not until the end of the 15th century that the construction of the current flamboyant Gothic building began. In 1524, the nave was consecrated and work accelerated until 1539, when the western walls of the transept were brutally interrupted due to lack of funds. It was not until 1661 that a new cycle of work was carried out, which added the apse to the church in two years, still in a "Gothic" style, but with considerably reduced forms. During the Second World War, the collegiate church suffered a lot of damage, which was repaired by a long restoration campaign.

The church of Sainte Blaise is a former conventual chapel of the abbey of Saint-Césaire, founded in the 6th century by the bishop of the same name. It was built mainly in three stages, starting in the 12th century, but has nevertheless revealed older remains. Disused during the French Revolution, it was used for various purposes before being excavated in 1972 and 1982.

The church of Sainte-Madeleine was built between 1882 and 1883. But from the end of the 19th century, with the sea baths, the development of the town was considerable and the chapel was too small. The apse was built in 1906. In 1926, further extension work was carried out by adding the left nave. It was decided to add the right-hand nave to the existing building, as well as to install panelling inside the church (1933-1934). In 2019, the creation of a monumental fresco inside the church has been entrusted to the Lille artist Amaury Dubois.

Built of dressed stone, it is a small building that has been extensively altered and renovated over the centuries: the bell tower, the choir and the underside of the bell tower, vaulted in the 16th century, bear witness to this.

The church of Sainte-Anne was built in 1845 on a hill called "le Calvaire". It includes 800 m2 of astonishing frescoes created in 1956 by Nicolaï Greschny, an Estonian painter.

Sainte-Anne de la Butte-aux-Cailles was built between 1894 and 1912 on the former Bréa chapel, built in memory of General Jean Baptiste Fidèle Bréa, who died during the days of June 1848. The church, in Romanesque-Byzantine style, was designed by the architect Prosper Bobin and built on the bank of the Bièvre.

The first church, destroyed following the English invasion of 1419, stood on the site of the present 15th century church. A nave was added in the 16th century. In the 19th century the church underwent further modifications under the direction of Viollet-le-Duc.

The church of Sainte-Catherine is linked to the history of Notre-Dame-de-la-Treille, patron saint of the city of Lille. The statue had been saved from the destruction of the collegiate church of Saint-Pierre, and was sheltered for a time in the church of Sainte-Catherine. The building, in its present state, was rebuilt in the 15th and early 16th centuries, and then remodelled in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.