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The Saint-Martin-et-Saint-Fiacre church is located in Juranville in Loiret. Built in the eleventh century, it was linked to the monks of the abbey of Saint Denis. From this period, the church has kept its Romanesque nave, which opens onto a Gothic choir which ends with a pentagonal apse. Inside the building, there are traces of frescoes on the walls of the nave and various remarkable pieces of furniture.

The church of Saint-Martin-la-Corneille and its cemetery are located somewhat away from the city of La Saussaye in Normandy. The building, dedicated to St. Martin, dates back to the eleventh century. In the sixteenth century, the church was enlarged and it was fully restored in the nineteenth century. The main facade is contiguous to a medieval-style house. The entrance is through a porch under framework. The building is composed of a nave surmounted by a bell tower with an octagonal spire.

The St Maurice church of Cirey-les-Bellevaux was built in 1870, in place of a chapel belonging to the Cistercian abbey of Bellevaux. It was designed with a Greek cross-shaped plan, and is considered one of the most beautiful rural churches in France. In the 18th century pilgrims went there to venerate the relics of St Pierre de Tarentaise. In 1944, the church was damaged during a bombardment.

In Crissay-sur-Manse, in one of the most beautiful villages of the Indre-et-Loire, is the Church of Saint Maurice, which dates from the 15th-16th centuries and was built by the noble family of Turpin. Their coat of arms and their motto are still visible in the flamboyant Gothic nave. The fire of Catherine du Bellay, wife of Jacques II Turpin, is in the current sacristy. Since 1926, the Church of Sant Maurice has been classified as a historic monument.

Located in the village of Dimechaux in the Avesnois, the Saint Maurice church dates from the 12th century. From the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries, it underwent a large number of transformations and restorations. At the heart of this Gothic Gothic building is a funerary stone dating from 1317 which contains the burial places of Chevalier Jean de Courtrai and his wife Katherine.

Church of Saint-Maurice is in the centre of the village, at the junction of five roads, and has two volumes of different heights. The lower one is the nave ; the other, higher and with no buttresses, with the air of a massive keep, has, in its lower level, a sanctuary which is perhaps Romanesque.

The Church of Saint-Maurice church is located in Saint-Maurice-La-Souterraine, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. The building dates from the late twelfth and early thirteenth century, and it is one of the characteristic Gothic buildings of Limousin. Inside, there are many classified, painted wooden statues that date from the eighteenth century.

The Church of Saint-Maurice is located in Valuéjols, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Saint-Maurice, once a commune and parish, was attached to Valuéjols in the 19th century. The early Romanesque church consisted of a single buttressed nave, a flat chevet and a turret. From this time, a beautiful arched portal remains, decorated with billets. In the 19th century, a chapel and a comb tower were added. The interior is beautifully furnished, with among others, an altarpiece and a statuary.

The Saint-Maximilien Kolbe church in Corps-Nuds was built by the architect Arthur Regnault. In Ille-et-Vilaine there are about fifteen churches of this style more or less completed, built by Arthur Regnault, fascinated by Byzantine churches. The church of Saint-Maximilien Kolbe was built with local stone, Coësmes-type limestone schist, granite and red brick.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, the church, defended by a keep and two imposing towers, was the refuge of the villagers, harassed and pillaged by passing regiments.