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Roman Catholic church, built in 1843, retaining the 18th-century tower, against which the current choir was built. Three-aisled neoclassical pseudo-basilica. Enlarged westwards in 1956. Internally plastered barrel vaults and Tuscan columns. Very rich main altar in Louis XV style from the second half of the 18th century and two 17th-century side altars. Organ with main work, positive and free pedal, made in 1848 by the Müller brothers from Reifferscheidt (Germany). Restored to its original state in 1987. Bell frame with bell by anonymous founder, 1763, diameter 49 cm.

In 1909 by Wolter te Riele (1867 - 1937). designed, in 1910-11 built neo-Gothic CROSS BASILICA, called H. Lambertus, with four-sided entrance tower and polygonal closed choir, with two ditto side chapels and baptismal chapel; adjoining each of the two transept arms a side chapel; belonging to the free-standing parsonage on the right. The tower, each provided with two elongated sound holes and a clock, is crowned by a low lantern with four corner turrets and an octagonal spire, which, like the roof turret, is covered with slates. The church, built of brick, contains pointed arch windows of various sizes with natural stone traceries and a stained glass filling, mostly with simple, geometric patterns, in the choir and transept partly with religious representations. The church is closed off by a combination of saddle, shield and lean-to roofs, covered with slates. The not completely symmetrically designed floor plan is centralising in design, with the side aisles increasing in width in leaps from the entrance and the choir flanked by two polygonal, less deeply extended side chapels; furthermore the hexagonal baptismal chapel and at the transept arms two straight-ended side chapels. The interior, executed in fair brickwork, which is plastered white around the windows and in the vault fields, is covered by net and star vaults at the wide, four-bay central nave and transept, by cross-ribbed vaults at the half-as-deep side aisles, and is divided into three aisles by round brick pillars with wide intercolumns; at the choir articulated pillars. The double-shell clerestory walls are provided with a triforium all around. The neo-Gothic interior also includes: the richly decorated altar, the wooden Marianum, the carved pulpit, supported by St. Lambertus, the painted Stations of the Cross, several colored statues of saints, as well as the confessionals. A church characteristic of the work of the late neo-Gothic architect te Riele, of centralizing design, with a striking tower and well-preserved interior, as such of importance because of its architectural-historical value.

The Sint Landelinus Church in Empel was built in 1948–1949 to a design by the Tilburg architect NH Pontzen (1919–1979) in reconstruction style. The church is located in the centre of Empel, the village rebuilt after the Second World War that is located slightly further from the Maas than the original ribbon village of Empel along the Maas. The Sint Landelinus Church and an associated rectory were built to replace the neo-Gothic Landelinus Church in Oud Empel, which was destroyed in November 1944. The Sint Landelinus Church and rectory have a traditionalist design influenced by the Bossche School. The church is designed according to the pseudo-basic type with a high square crossing tower and adjacent side chapels. Christocentric: the altar is located centrally in the crossing, which is externally crowned by a heavy tower. Behind this is a shallow five-sided apse extension. In 1996, an extension was added to the sacristy. The church has, in accordance with the basilica spatial division, a central nave with side aisles. The central nave is very wide and has benches on either side. The side aisles function as walkways and procession corridors. The central nave reaches to the triumphal arch wall that marks the connection to the high choir located under the crossing tower. At the end of the side aisles, on either side of the choir, are chapels. The church contains, among other things: Stations of the Cross by E. Deckers; a cross by Albert Termote; a statue of Antonius Abt by Frans van der Burgt and a triptych by L. Wiegman, which depicts the so-called Miracle of Empel (1585).

St. Laurentius, 1889-1891. JH Tonnaer. Three-aisled cruciform basilica in neo-renaissance forms with high cross tower and polygonal stair towers on either side of the front facade. The wooden tower at the crossing is covered with slates and consists of two square and two octagonal sections, separated by vaulted roof surfaces. In the nave round brick columns with natural stone bands and round arches, above which an entablature. Over the main aisles wooden barrel vaults with hipped roofs, over the crossing a six-part wooden cross-ribbed vault. The side aisles carry stone cross-ribbed vaults. Plastered wall surfaces, on the barrel vaults a vine painting. Mechanical tower clock by Eijsbouts, 1916.

Very monumental neo-Gothic church with heavy crossing tower, which is 60 m high. Interior (too) heavily simplified in the 1960s.

Brick tower from the middle of the 15th century, restored in the upper section (1696) after a fire (1671), during which the spire was added; restored in 1865 and in 1952-1959. Four sections with diagonal buttresses; the wall surfaces decorated with profiled niches, natural stone blocks used everywhere. Partly 17th century, partly modern bell storey on which octagonal spire covered with slates. Against the south wall polygonal staircase tower. Mechanical tower clock Petrus Megan i Brussells Fecit 1704, has been decommissioned. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Roman Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Church of St. Laurentius is a single-nave building from the 14th century, vaulted by cross-ribbed vaults, the capitals of which rest on short scutcheons. The church and the sacristy, also built against the south side and also dating from the 14th century, were raised with an arched frieze in 1835-'40, after which a neo-Gothic tower was built in 1872 on the site of a previous one from 1837. According to the Provisional List, the choir was built in 1872 with old stone in the Gothic style. The church has a pulpit, two copper chandeliers, 17th century, and a Gothic copper candlestick. On an organ gallery from the first quarter of the 19th century, an organ with main work and lower positive, made in 1865 by FC Smits. Restored in 1982 by the Vermeulen company. Mechanical tower clock Addicks?, Amsterdam, 1922, later fitted with electric winding.

Replaced a church destroyed by war.

The church of St. Laurentius was donated by Prince-Bishop Balderic II of Liège (1007-1018), together with the tithes of Bemelen, to the chapter of Our Lady in Maastricht. This donation was confirmed by Pope Adrian IV in 1157. It was the mother church of the St. Martinus parish in Wijck-Maastricht. Parts of the east wall of the marlstone, unarticulated tower date back to the 12th century, the rest dates from around 1350. The current spire dates from around 1760. The former church was replaced in 1845 by a neoclassical church, probably designed by Mathias Soiron. The church was restored in 1976. Mathias Soiron died in the year the church was built and is buried against the church wall, to the right of the entrance. {Source: [1] }

Important, characteristic modern church building with tower in the sober style of the "Bossche School". Future as parish church uncertain.