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Late neo-Gothic church with a high post-war tower, which at 63 m is one of the highest post-war church towers in the Netherlands.

Characteristic Stuytkerk with tower replacing the predecessor built by Cuypers .

The church is part of a complex; until 1976 the monastery complex of the Oblate Fathers, from 1976 the Penitentiary Institution "Ter Peel". The church is situated in a park-like (monastery) garden, vegetable garden and (formerly) orchards, according to the design of landscape architects Van Loo from Terwinselen (1947). Only the entrance to the church has remained outside the fences of the penitentiary institution.

The current church was built in the years 1852-1856 to an early design by Carl Weber . The construction was made possible by a large financial contribution from Count Jean Baptiste Marchant d'Ansembourg, who in return received a count's chapel in the church reserved for his family and the right to be buried near the church. The new church replaced the old village church, which was dedicated to St. Gertrude. This church had existed since at least the 14th century.

Roman Catholic Church from 1857, by Pierre Cuypers (1827 - 1921), with a series of wooden statues, ca. 1500-18th century.

Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception. 1855-1856, Th. Molkenboer. Neo-Gothic pseudo-basilica with transept. Tower with squat square bell storey, accompanied by incurved buttresses. Plastered interior with slender clustered pillars, capitals executed in stucco, niches with high-Gothic tracery above the arches and stuccoed wooden cross-ribbed vaults. High altar with large retable, in which statues, all executed in marbled wood by Veneman in Den Bosch. Marble statues by Mengelberg, copper baptismal font modelled on the 16th century font in Zutphen by JHBrom, 1887-1888. Church and inventory form an interesting example of an early neo-Gothic church interior from the period before Cuypers.

Second Roman Catholic church in Hilversum (after the St. Vitus church). Important neo-Gothic church, on a centralising plan, with a hexagonal crossing with a high roof turret. Very important early work in the oeuvre of Wolter te Riele (1867-1937).

Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, consecrated 1892, WVA Tepe. Three-aisled hall church, somewhat inspired by Westphalian Gothic with wide intercolumns (spans of the arches in the longitudinal direction of the church) between the columns. Three-sided closed transept arms, three-sided closed choir with diagonally placed polygonal (polygonal) chapels on either side as a transition to the transept. The side aisles have three-sided closures on the west side. Coupled windows in each of the two nave bays. Tower with a wide pointed arch niche in the bell floor in each facade plane, flanked by two narrow ones. Limestone high altar by FW Mengelberg. Mechanical tower clock, F. van de Kerkhof en Zonen, Aarle-Rixtel with electric winding.

Late Wielderskerk. Roof turret at crossing.

In several respects exceptionally original and important "reconstruction church", influenced in design by the Delft School (traditionalism), with references to early Christian church architecture. Front facade with a high, shallow wall; even higher wide, shallow bell tower above the choir. In the bell tower hang, in 4 separate niches, 4 church bells, all 4 of which are rung for church services. Rich detailing with various side chapels. In the choir are 2 important older stained glass windows. Redesign and/or reduction of pew plan in around 2007, whereby the original spatial effect has remained completely intact. The organ is now placed at the front right, at the choir side, instead of above the entrance to the church.