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Tower 1866. Church replaced old barn church from 1776. Characteristic small neo-Gothic church, prominently situated in the landscape.

Beautiful neo-Gothic church without a real tower, therefore no role in the village image. The current church replaced a neo-Gothic church from 1861. Consecrated in 1905. Three-aisled neo-Gothic hall church without transept. Tower, right of the front facade, unfinished. Left of the front facade a staircase turret. Interesting late neo-Gothic church, in the style of churches by architect A. Tepe. In the choir beautiful stained glass windows, made by studio F. Nicolas & Zn, from 1906. Exterior and interior were restored in 3 phases in the years 2000-2010.

Three-aisled neo-Gothic pseudo-basilica with west tower, influenced by the late Lower Rhine Gothic, characteristic of the oeuvre of G. te Riele Wzn. The church from 1894 shows great similarities with that of nearby Schalkhaar (Deventer), also by G. te Riele, from the same period. The church has not changed in its main features since it was built.

St. Nicholas, 1876-1877, Pierre Cuypers (1827 - 1921). Three-aisled neo-Gothic pseudo-basilica with octagonal crossing, covered by a star vault. Round pillars with moulded capitals. According to the first design, the church had almost the layout of a central building; during the execution, the nave and transept were extended and later Cuypers added two rectangular, diagonal chapels in each of the corners of the crossing. Next to the nave a sober tower, decorated with pointed arch niches and crowned by a high spire. Extension 1924-1925 with, among other things, widening of the side aisles and porch, to a design by Joseph Cuypers (1861 - 1949) and Pierre Cuypers Jr (1891 - 1982). During a modernisation of the interior in 1966-1967, much of the neo-Gothic inventory was removed, including three altars; the five stained glass windows in the apse windows have been preserved. Mechanical tower clock by Eijsbouts, 1917, equipped with electric drive. Restorations in 1982 and 2010.

The church consists of a 13-15th century nave and 15th century tower (mon.nr 12330) with a neo-Gothic eastern extension designed in 1912 by architect Wolter te Riele Gzn. The extension of the St. Nicholas Church is an exemplary example of Wolter te Riele's attempts to find a synthesis between a basilica and a central building. He shared this aim with Joseph Cuypers and Jan Stuyt. The church contains stained glass windows from 1912 by Frans Nicolas and sons Charles and Francois, from 1953 by Joep Nicolas, from 1963 by Sylvia Nicolas and from 1977 by Jan Schoenaker.

Three-aisled neo-Gothic pseudo-basilica with front tower, designed by G. te Riele. Stylistically influenced by the late Lower Rhine Gothic and by the work of A. Tepe. In 1933 drastically changed and expanded with a new transept and choir by J. Haket. On the choir tribune provided with letter panels a single-manual organ from 1900, made by Ludwig Schwarze (1858-1925) from Anholt. In the period January to June 2005 the church (1895, G. te Riele) was restored. The chancel in particular has been changed and is now much more functionally furnished. This means that the church can be given a multifunctional purpose, such as a concert hall. (54-05)

Since the 12th century, there has been a religious community of Christians in Helvoirt. In the beginning, they met in a chapel (from 1192). This chapel was renovated several times and around 1375 a Romanesque church was built. Around 1510, after major renovations, this church was given its current Gothic form (The 'Old Church' on the Van Grevenbroeckstraat). With the Reformation, this church passed into the hands of the Reformed in 1648. The Roman Catholic community built another church around 1675, this time on the Dreef. This was a barn church with clay walls and a thatched roof. Later in 1724, this would be replaced by a new barn church, now with stone walls. In 1840, the Waterstaatskerk came into use for the parish. On 30 April 1901, the foundation stone was laid for the current neo-Gothic St. Nicholas Church, which was officially consecrated on 5 October 1903. The church was built under the architecture of architect JHH van Groenendael, and was placed on the list of the National Service for the Conservation of Monuments as a recognised national monument in 1974.

This church was a neo-Gothic cruciform church by father and son Van Groenendael, probably in collaboration with mgr. H. Wouters, director of the Episcopal College in Weert and a brother of the pastor in Meijel. The church thus obtained was called the 'cathedral of the Peel' because of its beauty and large size. Because the new church was built on the same site as the old one, the parish was dependent on an emergency church, which remained in use from 1901 until the blessing of the new building in 1904. The church was not yet fully furnished upon completion, a process that continued until 1944.

Late Gothic pseudo-basilica, with west tower and two western bays from 1847-19th and wide side aisles, built in 1927 to replace the Gothic ones, which were narrower. Short five-sided closed choir, 16th. Decorative vault paintings in choir and nave, 1507. Communion rail, 18th; two confessionals, respectively 1704 and 1773; marble baptismal font, 19th century; pulpit, 19th century; pews, 19th century, porch, 18th century. Wooden statues: St. Joseph, 15th century; calvary group, 16th century; St. Lucia, 17th century, crucifix, circa 1700, Madonna, circa 1700, in the churchyard fragment of a gravestone, 17th century and stone grave crosses, 1604-1761.

Modest modern church building, with detached metal bell tower.