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The Church of Saint-Martin, registered with the Historical Monuments, is located in Moussy-le-Vieux, in Île-de-France. Built in the Gothic style, the building has an elongated plan consisting of a four span nave, which is particularly low and flanked by aisles. The three bay choir, twice as high as the nave, has a chevet with three cut sides. The nave is preceded to the west by a square tower which had to be rebuilt in the 19th century. The church houses many pieces of classified furniture.

The Saint-Martin church is located in Nohant-en-Graçay, in the Center-Val de Loire region. From its twelfth century Romanesque origin, there remains only the tower and thick pillars, decorated with figurations of animals and heads on the capitals. The single paneled nave is followed by a vaulted choir on intersecting primitive ribs.

The Church of Saint-Martin dates from 1836. It has a rectangular plan for the nave and side aisles, and the sanctuary is narrower finishing with a three-sided chevet. Over the entrance, a mosaic can be seen, probably from the Abbey of Wisques. The church has many objects mainly from the 17th century, such as the retable, but there is also a 16th-century statue of Saint Martin and a bronze bell.

The church of Saint-Martin is located in Orignac in Occitanie (Midi-Pyrénées). It is built on a hillock that was the site of an old defensive enclosure from the 12th and 13th centuries. The church, in its present form, dates from the 15th or 16th centuries. The building has a beautiful roof with five pinnacles, that is topped with a bell tower. Inside the church you can see the remarkable woodwork of the Ferrère brothers and several classified objects, including a beautiful ciborium.

The church of Pessac no longer has any architectural remains from the Romanesque period, when the church is attested. It then depended on the chapter of St André de Bordeaux. The name of Saint Martin indicates an ancient origin of this church, before the 12th century. The archaeological excavations, the historical archives and the architectural analysis of the present church, inform us about the history of the building over the centuries. The major elements of the church's decoration are the altarpiece, the tabernacle and the altar, which underwent a major restoration in 1997.

The ensemble is remarkable, but it is mainly to its capitals that the abbey church owes its fame today. The crypt, which is in a very good state of conservation, is also freely accessible, which is quite rare in the region. One can guess on the vaults old painted decorations and in particular a swastika. It was classified as a historical monument in 1853.

Church dating for a large part of the 13th century. The western façade is a gable wall pierced by a rectangular portal. The wall is framed by two buttresses and is surmounted by a cross. The south gutter wall runs along the nave, pierced by two bays. Then the chancel, also opened by two bays, is semicircular. This one is slightly lower than the nave and ends in a flat chevet which is a gable wall with no openings. The north wall is lit by a single bay at the level of the nave. The choir and the nave are covered by a gabled roof. A Fry-type bell tower rests on the nave.

Église Saint-Martin in Rinxent was entirely rebuilt during the 19th century in stone from Marquise and Napoleon marble (two varieties of local marble), by the parish priest Father Guche. The work took place from 1860 to 1885.

The parish church of Saint-Martin-de-Ré dates from the 14th century. Ravaged several times by conflicts, it was finally rebuilt more modestly in the 17th and 18th centuries, reusing what remained of the Gothic building. On the first day of 1774, the bell tower collapsed, taking with it part of the vaults. It was then decided to rebuild the building by reversing the orientation of the choir: bell tower to the east, choir now to the west. During the Revolution, the church was temporarily closed to worship.

Church of Saint-Martin à Savy-Berlette, built on a medieval castle mound dominates the landscape, as does the chimney of the old sugar refinery near-by. Certified as early as the 12th century, the building was rebuilt in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is then that the imposing 5-storey tower is built, crowned by a crenellated terrace with a round path and surmounted by the hooked arrow.