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 has a longitudinal plan, oriented, and composed of a single nave with a panelled barrel vault. Only the choir and the underside of the bell tower are vaulted with ribbed vaults.
The church was partly built in the 13th century in a radiant Gothic style: 1250 marks the beginning of the construction of the nave; 1270 to 1280, the transept and choir as well as the right span and side chapels, and finally the transept crossing at the end of the 13th century.
The Chapel of Saint-Jacques and Saint-Christophe d'Auvillers is located in Neuilly-sous-Clermont. The chapel, has pre-Romanesque features, such as a single nave opening onto a flat chevet choir, that was later rebuilt in a primitive Gothic style. It is surmounted by a stone belfry with an octagonal slate spire. The chapel housed a white Carrara marble bas-relief: "The Madonna of Auvillers" by Augustine said Duccio (fifteenth century), that has now been replaced by a copy after the original was moved to the Louvre.
Constructed in the shape of a T, the present church was built in the 16th century but has some primitive parts dating from the 12th century.
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