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The church of Saint Nicolas de Cavillon in the Somme is a country stone building with a low bell tower, a sixteenth century Romanesque nave and a chevet dating from 1781. The interior is covered with a vaulted ceiling, wood capped with sanders carved plant and geometric motifs and blochets adorned with human heads. You can find beautiful polychrome wooden statues from the sixteenth century, next to others made of polychrome plaster in the nineteenth century.

Located at Droiturier in the Allier, the Saint Nicholas Priory Church dates from the 11th-12th century. This beautiful Romanesque church, with some elements of Gothic style, has fascinating furnishings and décor; you will be able to admire historical capitals and neo-classical murals made in Trompe l'Oeil. Outside, a landscape restoration shows the whole priory as it was before.

The church of Saint Nicolas de Droué, in the Loir-et-Cher, dates from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. This building, characteristic of the Perche Vendômois, features two beautiful chapels, one of which is dedicated to Saint Nicolas; it is decorated with stained glass and a painting by Jouvenet.

Built in the sixteenth century, the church of Saint Nicolas de Géthary is characteristic of the labourdine churches of the Basque country. With its covered porch and steeple-pediment, the building presents, according to the Basque tradition, a choir and altar, largely raised, dominated by galleries that surround a single nave. The 1970 renovation highlights the altarpieces, the many statues dating from the seventeenth century, the painted decor of the beams and balustrades galleries.

The church of Saint Nicolas, located in Moncontour, in New Aquitaine, was built in the 12th century according to a Latin cross plan. The Romanesque style building is listed as an historic monument and has a long single nave and a transept. You can admire a stained glass signed Fournier representing Saint-Nicolas, patron of the church and very beautiful frescoes.

The beautiful and emblematic church of St. Nicholas, built in the 12th and 13th centuries, was listed as a historical monument in 1928 and classified as a historical monument in 1947. For centuries, it has housed "Our Lady of Miracles", a polychrome wooden statue "achéiropoïète" (i.e.: not made by human hand, and therefore miraculous), itself classified as a historical monument, whose presence in these places is attested since 1328. This statue is today the object of a pilgrimage at the beginning of December. The nave, the oldest part, is Romanesque, while the choir is in Gothic style. The whole is very harmonious, installed on the high point of the Old Saint-Maur. Place of celebrations, the church also hosts musical events thanks to its organ with its velvety sound of the 19th century, recently raised. It is the subject of guided presentations and receives many visitors all year round.

In the heart of the Saint-Cyprien district, the church of Saint-Nicolas is one of the finest examples of southern Gothic architecture of the 14th and 15th centuries. The history of this edifice is strongly marked by the floods that repeatedly devastated the Left Bank district of Toulouse. This is why the inhabitants chose Saint Nicolas, protector of sailors, as patron saint for their church, which was supposed to save them from sinking.

"Temple of the Hymen and Fidelity" in 1795, the church was returned to worship in 1802. It was restored in the first half of the 19th century (in 1823 and again in 1843). Altarpiece of the main altar by Simon Vouet and Jacques Sarrazin.

The neo-Gothic Church of Saint-Odo was built in 1885. The tower of an earlier castle church still stands next to it. The church was renovated and extended in 1955.

The chapel Saint-Omer was built in 1230. In the 16th century, the body of the church was added, giving the buildings its current structure. The plan of the church is simple: a bell tower, a stone nave covered with a paneled vault, a choir, two chapels and a sacristy (seventeenth century). You can notice the cross vaulted transept ogives (sixteenth century) complex drawing.