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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.

Built on the ruins of a Romanesque church, attached to the medieval city walls, the oldest parts preserved date from around 1200. Today the church of Saint-Médard is the result of an astonishing juxtaposition of architectures, styles and periods. Inside, the church conceals several treasures including a painting by Laurent de La Hyre.

In 1982 the Association of Friends of Bisquines and Old Cancale opened the Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions in the old parish church dedicated to St Méen. Located in the town, this building is in fact the old church of Cancale which has all its evolution linked to the history of the town for 500 years. Built in the 17th century, then from 1715 to 1727 on the plans of Garangeau, Vauban's architect, its facade is reminiscent of military type construction. It was definitively enlarged in the middle of the 19th century.

The church of Saint-Michael was founded in 987 as the chapel of the castle of the Count of Luxembourg. Destroyed and rebuilt many times, the appearance of the present church owes much to its reconstruction in the 17th century, including the construction of the present tower (1648). The church has a beautiful listed organ dating from 1609.