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Roman Catholic Church of St. Boniface. Single-nave neo-Gothic cruciform church with west tower, built in 1902 by PJ van Genk. The wide nave and transept are covered by wooden barrel vaults with hipped roofs. Lower down, a narrower apse closed with seven sides of an irregular polygon. Slender tower in the axis of the nave, flanked on the south side by a staircase tower and covered by a spire. Simple, early Gothic-inspired, three-part brick traceries in the windows. Original polychromy, glazing and furnishings largely preserved. Mechanical tower clock, circa 1880, now out of use.

Neo-Gothic church with cathedral allure, and with unique high tower, the highest church tower in Friesland and also one of the highest neo-Gothic church towers in our country. Main work of Pierre Cuypers (1827 - 1921). One of the 2 largest church buildings designed by him, which still exist; the other is the St. Vitus Church in Hilversum (the St. Willibrordus Church in Amsterdam, demolished in 1970 - 1971, and the St. Barbara Cathedral in Breda, demolished 1969 - 1970, were 2 other "largest churches" by Pierre Cuypers).

Tourist church from 1964 in Cadzand-Bad. Nickname Beach Church. Rare example of a Roman Catholic tourist church from the reconstruction period, equipped with an atrium in which celebrations can take place in the open air. Architecturally, the church is related to the Roman Catholic tourist churches in Koudekerke-Dishoek and Zoutelande from the same period.

HH Maria Brigida. 1889-1891 Ch. Weber. Three-aisled cruciform basilica with a cloverleaf-shaped east section, dominated by a massive dome tower above the octagonal crossing. High towers on either side of the front facade. Largely brick-built interpretation of the 13th century Romanesque-Gothic style. Pillars with ringed colonnettes, cross-ribbed vaults and exuberant use of brick in various colours. Important work from Weber's second period. Organ from 1894-96 in two parts on either side of the rose window. The organ case was made by J. Custers, the instrument by FC Smits jr. Smits used the old instrument from the previous church, which was made in 1849 by JJ Vollebregt. In 1927 the organ was pneumatized by Valckx and Van Kouteren and subsequently reconstructed by Flentrop in 2003, largely to the situation of 1894. The mechanical tower clock, Eijsbouts, 1943, has been decommissioned.

This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Beautiful brick church with tower. The organ was built by the firm Adema & Zn in 1878. In 1975, the firm Koch expanded the organ with a 2nd manual. This church is listed as a Municipal Monument of the Netherlands.

Roman Catholic St. Caecilia Church in the new housing estate, 1960s, Rotterdam-Alexander. Barely noticeable, but architecturally extremely important, modern church without a tower. In the (south-facing) focal wall an important series of glass-in-plastic windows. In the Maria chapel, rear left, an also extremely important modern window. Artist: of these windows: Ger van Iersel. The parish later merged with the parishes of Rotterdam-Oost, Capelle, Krimpen and Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel.

On the southern side of the square-like widening of Kerkstraat stands the Roman Catholic CHURCH BUILDING, dedicated to St. Cecilia. The neo-Gothic church dates from 1898 and was built to a design by C. Franssen (Roermond). A barn church had stood on the site of the church building since 1672, which was renovated in 1767. The extension against the western transept arm, consisting of a parish hall with connecting corridors dating from 1975, is not protected. In 1898, the bells from the medieval old tower were hung in the tower of this church.

Reconstruction church with raised choir and roof turret.

St. Calixtus. 1906-1908 by Joseph Cuypers (1861 - 1949) and Jan Stuyt (1868 - 1934). Crucifixion basilica, inspired by the late Lower Rhine Gothic with five-aisled choir and diagonally placed, five-sided closed chapels on the corner of the southern choir aisle and next to the tower.