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The Church of Saint-Clair of Saint-Porquier, Occitania was built in the sixteenth century, on the foundations of an older, eleventh century building that was ruined during the Hundred Years War. The building is of Southern Gothic style. It consists of a nave that opens on a three sided choir, flanked with side chapels. An octagonal bell-tower is flanked by a staircase turret. The interior was painted in the late nineteenth century.

The Church of Saint-Claud is located in Saint-Claud, in the region of New Aquitaine. In the eleventh century, the church was attached to the priory Saint-Claud, a barony of the Counts of La Rochefoucauld. At the end of the 14th and early 15th century, they modified the church, adding a crypt to house the sarcophagus of Saint Claud (Clodald), a monk and hermit assimilated to the little son of Clovis.

The Church of Saint-Claude is located in Lherula, in the Hauts-de-France region. It was built in sandstone in the 17th century. Probably originally built in the Romanesque style, it was heavily refurbished during the first half of the nineteenth century. The building houses statues and painting, as well as elements in glazed terracotta and earth, probably made by potters from the village. There is also the Baroque altarpiece that occupies the entire space of the apse.

Small church, of modest dimensions, perched on the top of an urban hill. The interior has been recently restored and its modern style blends easily with the local Toulouse style. Its location in the centre of the old village makes it a small jewel in the landscape.

Small church, of modest dimensions, perched on the top of an urban hill. The interior has been recently restored and its modern style blends easily with the local Toulouse style. Its location in the centre of the old village makes it a small jewel in the landscape.

The neo-Gothic church of St Corentin, located in Glomel, in the Côtes d'Armor is dedicated to Saint-Corentin, patron of Cornwall and Bishop of Quimper. Like most churches in the region, it is set up in a parish enclosure including a church, an ossuary and a calvary. Its construction took place in several stages between the 15th and the 17th centuries. A restoration in the 19th century gave the whole building a consistent and harmonious neo-gothic style.

The church of Saint Cornély de Carnac has a reliquary bust of the saint in gilded wood so heavy, it seems, that it takes 4 people to lift it. The church is one of the most beautiful examples of the Renaissance style in Morbihan (17th century). One can appreciate its side porch (1792) surmounted by a granite baldachin, apparently carved from a local menhir. In the shape of a royal crown, it is the work of a stonemason from Baud named Kergoustin.

Mentioned as early as the 12th century, the church was completely rebuilt at the end of the 15th century or the beginning of the 16th century, following the damages of the Hundred Years War.

The Saint-Cyr-Sainte-Julitte church- or Pierre Ronde church - is one of the oldest buildings in Normandy, being built in the 10th century. In the 15th century, this Carolingian building, destroyed by a fire, was covered with an exceptional frame on wooden posts with a paneled vault covered with polychrome paintings. If the church has lost many of its original decorative elements, its beauty, characteristics and colors can still be admired thanks to the magnificent restoration, mirroring the original, carried out by an association of passionate volunteers.

The church of Saint-Cyril and Methodius was built between 1926 and 1936, next to a former chapel, which dates back to 1884. In the basement of the temple are the graves of the soldiers who fell in the First World War. In 2006, the dome of the church, unfinished due to lack of funds, was finally completed.