Exceptional and rare testimony of flamboyant Gothic, in the heart of a village described with talent by the writer Georges Bernanos who lived there for a few years.
The former abbey church has kept its 38 m high Romanesque porch tower. The 2 square towers flanking the beginning of the bedside give the building its characteristic silhouette. The nave, whose hanging keystone vault is supported by composite columns, receives abundant light
A village church, it surprises on the outside by the particular profile of the choir overlooking the nave and on the inside by the contemporary works of the monk artists of the abbey of Wisques.
An old 13th century chapel, built by Baudouin II, count of Guines, and extended in the 18th century, to become a “hallekerque”, church with three naves of the same height.
A small Gothic country church, built on the Via Francigena, which contains some remarkable features, such as the oldest bell in the department and wall paintings by François Mes, a Benedictine monk from Wisques.
In the commune of Muncq-Nieurlet, in the heart of the Parc Naturel Régional des Caps et Marais d'Opale, the charming Saint-Joseph church offers a moment of serenity in the footsteps of a bishop...
The church Our Lady of the Assumption stands proudly in the centre of the town. It was built by Lille architect Charles Leroy, who was responsible for many religious buildings in the north of France, including the cathedral-basilica Our Lady of the Vineyard and Saint Peter in Lille.
A neoclassical church built on the initiative of the Duc de Penthièvre (grandson of Louis XIV), by the architect of the Paris Pantheon, Jacques-Germain Soufflot.
Discovering the church of Saint Ranulf, named after a local saint who was the source of a miraculous spring, means tracing the history of this Heritage Village back to the First World War, when the village was completely destroyed before being rebuilt in the 1930s. It's also a journey to the heart of the Canadian Reconquest.
Don't hesitate to come and discover the Church of Saint John the Baptist in Abbeville, located in the suburb of Rouvroy. Its elegant 19th-century neo-Gothic architecture replaced a building from the early 16th century, which itself was built to replace a chapel intended to house the relics of Saint John the Baptist, patron saint of the sick and disabled.
Astonishing church built by Clovis Normand in the 19th century, which offers a unique architectural element in the north of France: its elegant and complex exposed structure.
Stepping through the doors of the parish church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine in Vieux-Lille, not to be confused with the nearby ‘grosse Madeleine’, is to enter a place where religious practices and cultural activities come together: the city of the Gospel.
Sober 16th century construction, enlarged in the 19th century in a neo-Gothic style that harmonizes with the whole. Important pilgrimage centre of Saint Benedict Joseph Labre whose birthplace is nearby.