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The Church of Notre-Dame and Sainte-Agathe, registered with the Historical Monuments, is located in Quettreville-sur-Sienne, in Normandy. It was originally built in the fourteenth century, but the frame of the nave dates from the eighteenth century. The church is composed of a nave with four bays which is accessed by a small caquetoire. The choir is decorated with a beautiful bay in the flamboyant style. The windows of the choir are dedicated to the legend of St. Agatha, St. Anne and the seven sacraments.

A chapel was first built in the 12th century on the site of the current Notre-Dame church. After a Romanesque construction, the current Gothic church was built in the years 1220-1240. The church was notably restored in the 19th century by Jean-Charles Laisné (notably the tower of the transept crossing).

This church was built to replace the previous one which fell into disrepair between 1764 and 1778 by the Italian architect Antoine Spinelli at the request of Duke Charles-Emmanuel III of Savoy. The neo-classical church has a rich interior decor, which the you can see as soon as you enter the baroque nave.

Mentioned in the church archives is the presence of a basilica dedicated to Notre-Dame on this site, destroyed in 1287. The new church has a remarkable interior decor, with medieval wall paintings, frescoes from the 14th century, and polychrome wooden statues from 1480. Inside, the exterior decor of the entire west tympanum hosts the only representation of Alsace from the Adoration of the Magi in sandstone, dating from the 14th century.

This church is from the 11th century, and its current transept with its high apsidioles is one of the purest specimens of Romanesque art of the Germanic emperors. Of the first Romanesque church, destroyed by fire in 1199, only the transept remains. The church was then rebuilt and became the first Gothic building in Alsace.

The Notre-Dame church dominates the centre of Auxonne with its octagonal twisted bell tower, dating from its restoration in the 19th century. But most of the church is in Gothic style, patiently erected from the 13th to the 16th century. You can also admire the remarkable gargoyles and statues on the façade. Inside, the church conceals a rather singular work: the Virgin with the Grapes, a masterpiece of Burgundian art from the 15th century, and the Callinet organs.

The Church of Our Lady of Boissy-en-Drouais was built in the twelfth century by William of Champagne, bishop of Chartres, and almost completely rebuilt in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in a Gothic style. At the time of the Revolution the church was stripped of furniture and rich ornaments. The church has a high bell tower and a nave, vaulted with painted shingles. Its large door is remarkably adorned with entablatures, columns and jambs surmounted by a shell, made of Paris stone.

Built in 1015 on the ruins of a first church, destroyed during Viking raids. A chapel was built in the 16th century.

Like other monuments and a large part of the city, the church was destroyed during the great fire of the Madeleine in July 1487. It was therefore rebuilt in the 16th century, around 1520, the nave having been extended by a fifth span and according to a tradition that has not been historically verified, and it was the local architect Guillaume Pelvoysin who built the north tower. In the seventeenth century, the side entrance to the south was restored in the style of the time, i.e. with Corinthian columns that give a touch of classics. On 27 May 1562, when the Huguenots entered Bourges, it was again pillaged by the troops of the Count of Montgomery.

The Romanesque church Notre Dame de Brissarthe was built in the 11th century on a Merovingian site and the remains of a primitive church. It was the first priory of the Abbey St Serge d'Angers and features an impressive nave. In 1730, lightning struck the tower, partially destroying it. The tower and a presbytery are rebuilt on the south arm of the transept. It was at this time that the priory was dissolved and the church became a simple parish church.