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Large church with a high tower in the centre of Etten. Main work by architect PJ van Genk, and one of his largest church buildings. The St. Lambertus church in Etten and the St. Gummarus church in Wagenberg are probably the two largest church buildings designed by PJ van Genk. The neo-Gothic cruciform basilica was built under the influence of early French and Flemish Gothic. Interior simplified in 1958. Restored in the late 2000s - early 2010s.

Historic church with a tower from the 13th century. The upper part dates from 1842. The interior of the Roman Catholic St. Lambertus Church was restored between mid-January and the end of May 2004. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

The Saint Lambertus Church is a Roman Catholic church built between 1878-1880. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Neo-Gothic church. The tower was added separately in 1891 to prevent settlement. The tower was blown up by the Germans on 26 October 1944 and after the war it was only restored to the height of the nave and adorned with a saddle roof. The interior features beautiful brickwork that is polychromed here and there.

The church is in fact the successor (in the Catholic sense) of the church of the neighbouring village of Lambertschaag , also dedicated to Saint Lambertus. This church was transferred to Protestant hands during the Reformation , after which the Catholics had to use clandestine churches . In 1816 the clandestine church was replaced by a real church, located on the site of the current church. This church was enlarged in 1854.

The Holy Lambertus Church is situated on a site surrounded by ditches, accessible via a wooden bridge, with a balustrade and passageway built up in tree branches. The site is planted with various trees. The church, built in 1872-1873, is constructed in a sober Neo-Gothic style. The church was built for the residents of the tenant houses founded by Jonkheer AJA van Rijckevorsel and the service houses belonging to his country house. The houses, which have since been demolished, were leased by the lord for the development of the sanded dune lands (the Staelduin).

Neo-Gothic church with tower.

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.

St. Lambertus, 1876-1881, PJH Cuypers. Single-nave neo-Gothic cruciform church in sober brick shapes with a tower, crowned by a spire. Wooden barrel vaults. Neo-Gothic marlstone chapel in the shape of a cross in the churchyard, crowned by a fioel and surrounded by buttress arches. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

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.