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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).

The original chapel on this site was founded by Jan I van Cuijk. According to tradition, he did this as penance for his involvement in the murder of the Dutch count Floris V in 1296. The current building was built between 1450 and 1475. At that time, the chapel was still subordinate to the parish church of St. Martin in Cuijk. Around 1550, the church had its own churchwardens and a sexton. Masses were also celebrated there. In short, there was already development towards an independent parish church. And in 1564, the chapel was given that status, but that was over within a century. Because after the Peace of Munster in 1648, the Lambertus Church was closed: in the young Republic of the United Netherlands, the public practice of the Roman Catholic faith was no longer permitted. The church in Linden was closed (due to a lack of Protestants who could use the building). The Catholics from Linden went to church in Kleef or Mook. For a short while, from 1672 to 1674, the people of Linden got their church back from the French. But after their departure, the church lost its function as a place of worship again and was used as a salt storage facility. At the end of the seventeenth century, things became a bit more relaxed: in many places, Catholics built a so-called barn church: an inconspicuous building where people could go to church. In Linden, there was no barn church, but a house church (or church house). In 1698, pastor Verstraten built a church house with a home. A very beautiful kind of clandestine church, which one of his successors would later gratefully use for his seminary.

Historic church with high tower (76 m). Replaced older church. According to a memorial stone, the tower dates from 1467. The church was damaged by War in 1944. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Central Roman Catholic church and parish in the centre of Helmond. Very important early neo-Gothic church building with tower. Richly detailed interior with, among other things, a historical organ. This church is comparable to the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, an earlier design by Th. Molkenboer, especially because of the exuberant polychromy.

Beautiful neo-Gothic village church with neo-Romanesque elements, and with tower. There is a cemetery behind the church. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

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.

Replaced the medieval predecessor destroyed in the Second World War. Large three-aisled hall church with atrium (forecourt), projecting transept and large tower at the side of the choir, provided with a slender openwork, octagonal superstructure. The choir is crowned externally by a lower round tower with spire. Internally provided with a concrete skeleton (pillars, vaults), thus innovative in Romanesque church construction in the 1950s. Highlight in the late oeuvre of AJN Boosten, completed shortly after his death (1951), in freely conceived traditionalist forms, influenced by Romanesque and early Christian architecture. Important modern glazing from the construction period by G. Franssen and J. ten Horn. Also important medieval INVENTORY including: late Gothic holy water font of bluestone; the shutters of a South Netherlandish triptych, 16th century, a series of late Gothic wooden statues, of which the most remarkable are a St. Agnes and a St. Catherine; paintings, some of which originated from and were brought to safety in October 1944 from the previous church, which was destroyed later that year.

St. Lambertus Church. Three-aisled pseudo-basilica with three-sided closed choir, 15th century, extended in 1953 after the destruction of the west tower in 1944. Statue of Christ on the cold stone, 16th century, a crucifix. In the angelus tower a bell by A. Jullien, 1715, diam. 40.3 cm.

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.