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The church of Saint-Simon was built in the 13th century, probably from 1283. It blends Romanesque and Gothic styles. In the 1960s, during the Soviet occupation, the church became a museum. The congregation returned to the building in 1988. The church has a beautiful pipe organ built in 1886 by a famous European organ builder, Friedrich Ladegast.

Sizun owes its fame to its magnificent parish enclosure, which it owes to the prosperity of the linen industry it enjoyed in the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries (more than 35 factories were counted there). The parish enclosure of SIZUN, classified as a Historic Monument, is distinguished from other towns by its unique architecture whose ingenuity forces admiration. The Gothic style bell tower is one of the last with spire erected in Brittany, under the reign of Louis XV and bears the dates 1728/1735. It rests on four pillars and has no foundation. Its slender spire, of great finesse, culminates at 56 m. The Arc de Triomphe (1585/1590) is the monument that strikes the attention of all visitors to the parish enclosure. It gave access to the cemetery which, in the past, was located around the church. It is said to be the most beautiful of its kind in Brittany.

The church of Pierrefonds is dedicated to Saint Sulpice de Bourges, which allows us to conclude that it was founded from the end of the Merovingian period. A number of churches in the region are dedicated to the same patron saint.

The church Saint Sulpice d'Avoise, dominates the river of Sarthe. Built in the twelfth century, it was reworked many times to take its current form, with renovations completed in the nineteenth century. It is a Romanesque building with a cruciform plan with a single paneled nave and a flat choir. It features an altarpiece by Nicolas Bouteiller, a chalice and various classified statues and bas-reliefs.

Founded in the 11th century to the south of the castle, rebuilt in the 15th and 16th centuries in a flamboyant Gothic style, completed for the choir in the 18th century, the church of St Sulpice is one of the richest in Brittany. A major element of the heritage of Fougerais, the church of St Sulpice was classified as a historic monument on 26 September 1910.

The Saint-Sulpice church, built between 1646 and 1870, replaced a 12th century sanctuary. The style chosen for the new church is classicism with many Corinthian elements.

The land belonged to the Abbey of Lezat and was given to the Order of the Hospital between 1120 and 1214. A bastide was created there in 1257 by Alfonso de Poitiers, to whom the Hospitallers ceded the high jurisdiction over this territory. 15th century building, restored in the 19th century, in which mural paintings from the 16th century were found.

The Church of Saint-Sulpice in Willeman et son Cimetière was built in the 15th century. It is probably the most remarkable architectural element of the church is its bellow-porch.

In the 12th century, the church is the property of the abbey of Moutier-d'Ahun. The first permanent church was built in the 10th century. It was after successive embankments of the cemetery, then during the construction of "The High Church" in the twelfth century, that this church was transformed into a "Crypt".

The church of Saint-Symphorien was built in the fifteenth century in Cherreau, in the Pays de la Loire. The building has a western Gothic facade pierced with a portal decorated with sculptures. The nave (fifteenth century) is extended by a choir (eighteenth century) almost as long as it. The church is especially interesting for gable figures and gargoyles made by Gaullier (nineteenth century), six windows of the late sixteenth century, paneling (eighteenth century) and rich furniture.