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The Église Saint-Esprit of Crémarest is hidden in the folds of the countryside around Boulogne, and situated in the protected park of the Headlands and Marshes of the Opale Coast.

The church of Saint-Etienne de Clémont was originally built in the11th century, as was counted among the possessions of the abbey of Vierzon. However, nothing remains from this era. The church was rebuilt in the fifteenth century and heavily restored in 1896. The tympanum with lily flowers and rosettes are noteworthy, and typical of the fifteenth century. Funerary slabs, paintings and statuettes, and a tomb-style altar-tabernacle adorn the interior of the building.

The building, the oldest parts of which date back to the 12th and 13th centuries, seems to have been altered at the end of the 15th following a violent destruction, and has since undergone some modifications.

The patronage of this church belonged to the cathedral chapter of Limoges. Louis d'Aubusson, knight of St Jean de Jerusalem, commander of Charrières et Gentioux, founded a vicarage with a chaplain to serve it in 1468.

Church of modest size, on the border between Romanesque and Gothic style. Its square lantern-shaped bell tower, its Latin cross layout, the 13th century Plantagenet-style vaulting of the choir... The other attractions of the church are the murals that adorn it on all sides.

Rich in a long and well-documented history, there are several centuries to be covered in this modest church in the region. Built in the Romanesque style, there are traces of polychrome paintings dating back just over a century, but which give a pleasant account of what the statues and scenes painted on churches in the past might have looked like.

The Church of Saint-Etienne is located in Neublans-Abergement, in Burgundy-Franche-Comté. The current church was built in the 18th century, at the same time as the neighboring castle. The church is composed of a nave, preceded by a steeple forming a porch. A choir with a flat chevet extends the nave. Two chapels form a false transept. It houses an eighteenth century pulpit and baptismal font, classified sacerdotal objects and, on the forecourt, a 15th century Calvary.

The church left by the Augustinians reflects both their pastoral ambition and the poverty of their means. At 52 m long and 26 m wide, it is one of the great churches of the Ancien Régime in Rennes, more spacious for example than the church of the Jesuits or that of Saint-Sauveur.

The church was built in the 12th century. The nave is pierced with Roman bays in full arch. It is surmounted by a tapered spire. The south wall is divided by three buttresses and the north wall by four. It underwent numerous alterations until the 17th century. The main facade of the building is a gable wall. The low arch portal is framed by four buttresses. In the eastern part, two round-arched bays alternate with buttresses. A door opens into the nave at the fourth bay.

The church of Saint-Eustache dates from 1773 but has a 19th-century bell tower and a small walled cemetery. The church houses a collection of paintings, especially by the Baroque master Carlo Dolci (1616-1686).