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On the site of the former Roman Catholic Chapel of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart . Damaged by war in 1944. Restored.

With elements of Neo-Romanesque, in 1927, to a design by architect Joseph Franssen from Roermond, a CATHOLIC CHURCH was built in honour of Saint Joseph. The architect was Johannes Duijf and the contractor was Fincken from Stevensweert. The church is connected to the adjacent rectory on the right side, and on the left and rear side is the Catholic cemetery. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

The neo-Gothic CHAPEL on the Roman Catholic cemetery behind the Roman Catholic church St. Joseph on the Hamersveldseweg was built in 1916 to a design by the architect H. Kroes. The chapel is situated at the end of the main axis in the south-eastern corner of the cemetery. The chapel has a floor plan in the shape of a Greek cross and has a basement. The roof, covered with slates in Maasdekking, consists of two intersecting saddle roofs with a roof turret at the intersection. A zinc finial has been placed on the four ridge ends. The facades are built of gray brick in cross bond. The four gables are flanked by a cut buttress that ends in a pinnacle. The pinnacles are provided with a crowning with a chevron-shaped ornament similar to that on the entrance gate to the cemetery. The front (west side) contains a large pointed arch opening with a frame in red brick. Above the opening is a medallion with a representation of the resurrection of Christ. Around the medallion and along the roof edge is a band of decorative brickwork in red brick. A partly natural stone pavement leads to the opening, closed off by a two-winged, rotating iron bar gate with a narrow, fixed fence on either side. The connecting posts of the gate are crowned with ornaments in Art Nouveau style. The central post is provided with a cross.

The St. Josef Church is a Roman Catholic Church built in 1910 and expanded in 1932.

Neo-Gothic church with tower. Original design by architect P. Soffers.

The church building St. Jozef Werkman in Sleeuwijk, built in 1964 as a semi-permanent branch church but now in use as a regular parish church, belongs to the parish Joannes Nepomucenus. A second location that is mainly used for feast days is the monumental water board church in Woudrichem. The St. Jozef church, located on the Rijksstraatweg, was designed by architect J. de Jong under construction pastor S. Baselaar, ofm The first stone was laid on 15 February 1964. The building could be blessed on 28 August 1964. It is a rectangular, functional space that is only interrupted by two pillars that carry a beam that runs from front to back. Initially, the entrance was at the back, but after a renovation in 1979, the main entrance was moved to the front on the Rijksstraatweg. The portal was then converted into a sacristy.

The Jozef Arbeiderkerk is a church building in Meerssen built between 1958-1959.

Demolished. Replaced.

St. Judocus, consecrated 1893, P.Th. Stornebrink. Neo-Romanesque basilica with semi-circular apses against the end gables of the transept and the choir, as well as at both ends of the side aisles. The church, built of brick, has a facade decoration with lesenes and arched friezes. Tower of four floors, separated by moldings, with arched friezes and triangular gable crowns. Apse-shaped tower portal.

A monumental neo-Gothic hall church from 1876 designed by Alfred Tepe, the architect of the Utrecht St. Bernulphusgilde. The church has a three-aisled hall nave and a characteristic spire on the tower. With the original stained glass by Geuer and the painted copper plates by Mengelberg, the church is a prominent part of the skyline of the village center of Beesd.