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This late 11th or early 12th century church was part of the monastery of Brageac, first intended for men and then transformed into a women's abbey of the order of Saint-Benoît.

The Church of Saint-Thuriau is located in Plumergat, Brittany, on a former site of prayer and druidic sacrifice. Built in the Romanesque style (eleventh century), it was relatively unchanged until 1948, when many changes were made, without altering too much the general structure of the building. Above the gate stands a fourteenth century bell tower, broken by a small outfacing bay. There is a polychrome wooden altarpiece and Romanesque capitals from the twelfth century (listed Historical Monuments).

Located in Fère-Champenoise, in the Marne department, the Saint Timothée church is a majestic building that combines Romanesque and Gothic styles. The windows of the apse are a wonderful example of the flamboyant Gothic style and are well worth visiting.

The Saint-Tudy church is a Romanesque church located in Loctudy, port of the Pays Bigouden, in the south of the Finistère department in Brittany. It is consecrated to Saint Tudy, a monk whose geographical and historical origins are rather vague. It is one of the rare Romanesque churches in Brittany to have come down to us with, among others, the church of Locmaria in Quimper, the abbey church of Sainte-Croix in Quimperlé and the church of Saint-Pierre de Fouesnant. Its restoration - in two stages during the 19th century - was followed by Prosper Mérimée and Jean-Baptiste Lassus, and carried out by Joseph Bigot and Paul Gout, which may indicate a certain architectural importance of the building.

The church of Saint-Urh dates from the end of the 14th or the beginning of the 15th century. It was rebuilt in the Baroque style in 1743. At that time, the new church and the parish were covered with bricks from the abandoned Kamen Castle. The interior of the church contains many paintings from different periods.

Saint-Vaast Church is located in Landas, in the Hauts-de-France region. The first church, a Romanesque building from the tenth-eleventh century was associated with the cathedral of Tournai and the abbey of Flines. Rectangular in plan, the building includes three vessels of five bays. It is preceded by a brick belfry tower which houses the oldest bell in France (1285) still in operation. Inside you can admire an organ with 784 pipes dating from 1894.

The church of saint Vaast is one of the major works of classical 18th century art. Built between 1725 and 1750 under the authority of the Abbot of the Abbey of St.Vaast ( a Benedictine abbey in Arras, a few miles away) this church which looks like a small abbey-church has very pure lines.

The church has been part of the parish of Heudebouville since 1027, which depends on the Abbey of Fécamp in Normandy. The church, which has been classified since 1926, is composed of a single nave covered with a paneled frame and a choir with flat bedside and vault of plaster. The massive bell tower is topped in two parts: the first, similar to a pavilion roof is surmounted by a small polygonal spire.

13th century fortified church classified as a Historic Monument. Free visit of the exterior and interior architecture: description of the painting by the painter Girodet and Mise au Tombeau, an exceptional 15th century sculpture. The church contains a treasure room with reliquary busts and relics of Saint Jacques, as well as a collection of chasubles and a crypt.

The church of Saint-Vincent would have been founded as an oratory by Landry de Soignies (637-700) around 675 for his father Saint-Vincent. Entirely in Romanesque style, its oldest part - the tower - was built between the 11th and 12th centuries. Ravaged several times by the Calvinist iconoclasts between 1578 and 1585, it was not until 1602 that the church received a new roof and the north door of the tower was walled up and replaced by the present entrance.