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The church of St Jean de L'Aigle dates from the twelfth century. It has a nave of five spans, extended by a choir (late twelfth century) of three spans. In the fifteenth century, a Gothic bell tower was added, which is decorated with flamboyant Gothic statues. The church wass damaged during the bombings of 1944. Inside, you can admire the wooden altarpiece of the high altar and many classified decorative objects.

St. John the Baptist Church is an art-deco church built in 1931. It replaces a 19th century building, which had become dilapidated and had replaced the old medieval church of the 10th century. The medieval church of St. John the Baptist was destroyed in 1578 when the Calvinists took control of Brussels. In 1834-1836, a new St. John the Baptist church was built according to the plans of the Brussels architect Louis Spaak. However, the new building soon became cramped. In the 1920s, the project for the new church was entrusted to the architect Joseph Diongre. The Church of St. John the Baptist is the first reinforced concrete church in Brussels.

The very old Saint Jean-Baptiste church of Noyers de Gaillefontaine dates from the beginning of the 12th century. It has some exceptional furniture items: a polychrome life-size statue of Saint John the Baptist of the sixteenth and baptismal fonts from the eleventh to twelfth century adorned with small columns.

Saint-Jean-Baptiste de La Feuillée Church (it dates only from 1858-1860, rebuilt but in neo-gothic style) flamboyant by architect Jules Boyer, but it preserves important elements of the previous parish church dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, itself built on the site of an earlier church that disappeared in the 13th century. It has a bell tower with a gallery and an octagonal spire. The door of the south porch comes from the old church, as does one of the windows. Numerous gargoyles decorate the building. It contains ancient statues including that of Saint Houardon and that of Itron Varia Menez Are, a remarkable Piètà and a beautiful high altar. It also preserves 12 very beautiful frescoes and murals which were the subject of an inventory and study in 2000.

The Church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste was built in the neo-gothic style in 1884 following the plans of Clovis Normand, a talented regional architect. It draws its charm from its style of construction.

The Church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste is located in Luigny, in the Center-Val de Loire region. From the original building of the twelfth century remain the walls of the nave pierced by small Romanesque semicircular bays, and the semicircular apse. The western facade has the main entrance, underlined by an archivolt. The church was enlarged in the sixteenth century with the construction of a chapel. The choir, built in 1656, is a beautiful ensemble of Baroque style. The altarpiece is classified.

The commune of Manerbe and its church Saint-Jean-Baptiste already existed before the year 1000. The latter was rebuilt in 1513 when the Confrérie des Chantons was founded. The portal is from the 17th century. It was made for the abbey of Val Richer then was installed in the 18th century in Manerbe. Before the Revolution, the patronage belonged to the lord of the place. The main facade is a gable wall cut in its northern part by a bell tower. The portal is framed by a low arch. The wide gable is decorated with an oculus and surmounted by a ridge cross. A buttress supports the southern end of the wall. The bell tower rises on three levels supported at their corners by buttresses.

The church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste is located in Moulinet, in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Built in the 12th century on the site of a 5th century Visigothic temple, it has a three bay nave with three vessels, leading to a choir consisting of a straight span and a semicircular apse. The building was heavily remodeled in the nineteenth century. You can admire various sacerdotal objects from the eighteenth century, and a 19th century statuette of the Madonna and Child and family tombs.

Church with a square Romanesque bell tower leaning against the chevet; the rest of the church was rebuilt in the 15th century.

The church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste is located in Saint-Jean-pla-de-Corts, in Occitania. It is built on the foundations of an older church, that is mentioned as early as the 10th century. The church is composed of a vaulted nave that is framed by two side aisles with arcades. In the eighteenth century, the Romanesque tower was transformed into a bell-tower by adding a span of masonry and a staircase. Finally, in the 19th century, An ironwork marquise was added above the entrance gate.