Montpellier Cathedral

The church of Saint Roch was built in the 19th century in the neo-gothic style. As Saint Roch was a very popular saint in Montpellier, a popular contribution was made to raise funds to build a church in his memory. This was done between 1860 and 1868 by the architect J. Cassan who built the church on the site of the church of Saint-Paul which was destroyed in 1622 during the siege of the city and of which some remains remain at the rear of the present church near the statue of Abbé Fabre.

St. Paul's Church is a neo-Romanesque building built between 1835 and 1849 to the plans of the architect Charles-Auguste Questel. Renowned artists participated in the decoration of the church: All the hinges and locks of the exterior and interior doors were made in 1845 by the ironworker Pierre Boulanger, who designed the remarkable hinges of the central portal of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. The church has frescoes by Hippolyte Flandrin. Its organ was built in 1848 by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll.

Nîmes Cathedral is a neo-classical church with neo-Byzantine furnishings dating from the 17th century. The surviving medieval parts, especially in the western façade, such as the gable wall, date from a late Romanesque construction phase in the mid 12th century. During the Wars of Religion, Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Castor was severely damaged twice by the Huguenots in 1567 and 1621. Between 1877 and 1882, the architect Henri Révoil remodelled the interior of the neoclassical cathedral in the Romanesque-Byzantine style.