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The chapel of Saint Egbert belonged to the Roman Catholic children's colony Saint Egbert where weakened children, the so-called 'pale noses', used to be able to recuperate for a period of six weeks. The church dates from 1915 and has been designated as a monument. The interior is still completely authentic and exudes an intimate atmosphere. The chapel has a capacity of up to 100 people.

Modern church without tower. After the old wooden church was destroyed in 1944, the parish first temporarily held church in the classrooms of the adjacent Sint Joseph school. In 1960, the new church building, north of the school, was put into use. Incidentally, the wooden parish church stood west of the school, where the Planciushof is now. The school was replaced by new construction around 1968, so that nothing has been preserved from this period in the parish's history. The church consists of a rectangular church hall, with a semicircular apse on the west side. The windows are made of concrete and colored glass.

Neo-Gothic church with tower. Replaced an earlier church building on the site.

Roman Catholic St. Eligius Church from 1928, designed by Pierre Cuypers jr. (1891-1982), grandson of Dr. PJH Cuypers from Roermond. The church, designed as a three-aisled basilica with a roof turret, has a sober expressionist design. The consecration by Mgr. Aengenent, bishop of Haarlem, took place on 19 May 1930. Renovation in 1950.

Roman Catholic CHURCH of St. Elisabeth, founded by the lords of Cuyk at the end of the 13th century; became a collegiate church in 1308; renovated after the city fire of 1415; new choir built in 1506-1516, the transept in 1564. Reformed in 1602. Heavily damaged by war in 1674, repaired in 1707-1719; again badly damaged by the siege of 1794. Put into use by the Catholics in 1804, restored in 1842 after flood and storm; collapse of nave and transept in 1866; demolished the remains of the tower in 1874 after a lightning strike. At the transept in the 19th century a nave bay with side chapels restored. After all these vicissitudes, all that remains of the church are: choir and transept as well as a bay with side aisles of the nave; the lower side of the northern and southern outer walls of the nave (behind the houses of the Kerkstraat) and the lower part of the western wall with tower entrance, especially on the northwest corner still a fairly high rising remainder. The northern transept facade contains a weathered relief with the Annunciatis in the top, the southern transept facade is covered with natural stone pilasters, caryatids and volutes. Internally completely covered with stucco vaults, vaulted sacristy in the corner of the choir and southern transept. Early 18th century baroque furniture: richly carved main altar and two side altars; two simpler altars in Louis XVI style; opulent pulpit from around 1700; two confessionals from 1713; communion bench from 1758. Marble grave monuments for Duke Arnout of Gelre, erected in 1802 after an older mausoleum was destroyed in 1794, and marked SCHoffman, 's-Hage. 16th century statue of St. Jacob; series of beautifully carved statues and groups from 18th century, including St. Anna, St. Elisabeth, Joseph with child Jesus and Janneke. Paintings: Crucifixion between canons, beguines, bourgeoisie and knighthood, intended as a memorial for Mr Jacob de Haan (died 1528), portrait of a canon; a painting by David Seghers. Neo-Gothic wall paintings by Heymans from Den Bosch, 1900, of little value. Organ with main work and secondary work by FC Smits from 1846. During the restoration of 1981 a false backwork was added. Some tombstones in the garden west of the church building.

Roman Catholic parish church of St. Engelmundus in the prosperous village of Driehuis, built to replace a so-called water board church . Important, extremely atmospheric village church in terms of interior, with many interesting details: paintings and stained glass windows. In 1943, much was lost in a fire in the sacristy, vestments and candlesticks. The stained glass windows were destroyed by an explosion in a bunker.

Situated on a detached, rectangular plot is the Roman Catholic Parish Church of the Holy Family from 1921-1922, designed by architect Jan Stuyt. The plot also contains a parish house and the construction shed that was preserved after construction.

Interesting interbellum church, in the hamlet of 't Kruis, in the southeast of Heerhugowaard. Extensively renovated and modernized in 1966, in particular by "finishing" a front facade (on the site of a bell tower that was once designed but never built), with bells hung on that front facade in a remarkable way. The choir section from 1923, with four stained glass windows from that period, above which a roof turret, has remained intact.

The Holy Family Church, designed by Rudolf Schwarz and Josef Bernard, was built in Alt-Oberhausen from 1955 to 1958. It features a central altar, colorful glass panels, and now serves as a food distribution center for the Oberhausener Tafel since 2008.

Before this church was consecrated on 7 August 1877, there was already an auxiliary church in the Eierlandpolder that dated from 1841, which was a former smithy. The current church was built by order of the Antwerp resident Nicolas Joseph De Cock, the initiator of the reclamation of Eierland. The church was named after his wife Francisca de Cock and dedicated to Saint Francisca Romana. Architect Bijvoets from Amsterdam designed the building, contractor Leendert van der Ploeg from Zierikzee would build the church for f 20,980. However, the contractor went bankrupt during construction and extra money had to be found for completion. This church is the second oldest Catholic church on the island of Texel.