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The Church of Saint-Pierre is located in Spézet, in Brittany. The construction of the building dates back to 1709, in place of an old, sixteenth century church. The western part is surmounted by a steeple decorated with two balustrades and a stone spire. To the south, there is an elegant porch sheltered by an imperial roof. The interior is decorated, including a classified preaching pulpit, added in 1763.

The Church of Saint-Pierre is a gothic temple in local white stone that has stood in Wailly since the 13th century. It was destroyed during the second half of the 17th century, and rebuilt in brick during the following century, except for its stone tower which had been preserved. The church was entirely destroyed during the First World War.

It was one of the four churches of the abbey of Notre-Dame de Soissons before becoming an abbey of canons regular for the monks in charge of the spiritual and temporal administration of Notre-Dame. It became a collegiate church in the 9th century and is now a parish church.

Initially, the building, dedicated to Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens and whose foundations date back to the 12th century, had only one nave with a barrel vault. In the 16th century, the monks of Charay added a wing to it which houses three chapels: (starting from the choir:) Our Lady of Piety, St. Trinity, founded in 1631 by the Chanaleilhes, lords of the Château du Pin (some of them would sleep under the slabs of the church), and the third dedicated to St. John the Baptist.

The Church of Saint-Pierre-ès-Links Texon, currently in the town of Flavignac in the department of Haute-Vienne, dates from the fifteenth century. The building, listed as a Historic Monument, has beautiful wooden furniture, three altars, altarpieces and baptismal font made of granite.

The Church of Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Michel of Séry-Magneval, in the Hauts-de-France region was built around 1200. The church is surprising because of its slender character, a characteristic that is rare for a church of such limited dimensions. It consists of a Romanesque nave that was exalted at the end of the sixteenth century, a transept and a choir that was built at the beginning of the thirteenth century in the Gothic style. The church retains traces of painted decorations of the twelfth, thirteenth, sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.

The church of Saint Pierre and Saint Paul de Chânes was built in the 11th century by the monks of the nearby Cluny Abbey, on the site of a 9th century church. Its Romanesque nave is extended by an apse on the dome from which one can admire a fresco of Byzantine style. The gabled facade is decorated with semicircular Lombard arches highlighted by a "sawtooth" band. The bell tower is of the Cluniac type.

The church of St Pierre and St Paul de Chauffours appears unusual, with its two contiguous roofs, its porch and its small spire that overhangs the roof. This atypical church, which brings together several architectural styles ranging from Romanesque to Renaissance style, was under the dependence of the chapter of Notre-Dame de Chartres.

The church of St. Peter and St. Paul of Essay, in the department of Orne, dates from the eleventh century. It’s Romanesque entrance is decorated with capitals with monsters head and geometric patterns. The interior of the church, elegantly decorated, includes some elements of classified furniture, such as a cross depicting Christ from the fifteenth century and the baptismal font of the twelfth century, which are decorated with the same geometric decoration as that of the Romanesque portal.

The Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul church is located in La Motte-Tilly in Champagne. The choir and transept date back to the 16th century. Built in the renaissance style, they were part of the chapel of the first Motte-Tilly castle, that belonged to the local noble family, the Raguier. This church is remarkable for the chapel dedicated to Saint Margaret, which houses the marble tomb of Father Joseph Marie Terray, by the sculptor Félix Lecomte, listed in 1919