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Roman Catholic Church of St. Peter's Bands. Founded before 1285, in its current form a late Gothic cruciform basilica with built-in tower and modern extension on either side of the choir. The choir, from around 1400, was raised around 1930. The nave, with lower transept, belongs to the Maas Gothic style, around 1450, with cross-ribbed vaults on columns with capitals decorated with water lily leaves. Beautiful tower, restored in 1884 and 1905 (Jos. Th. Cuypers), with ample use of natural stone, diagonal buttresses with recessed fields, natural stone arch friezes in the wall surfaces of the sections of the tower massif, extended staircase tower; high spire, constricted from four to eight sides, crowned by a pear (built in 1714 after the fire of 1699). Inventory: bluestone baptismal font from around 1500; oak pulpit, 18th century, with later evangelist heads and a railing from around 1800; 15th century statues of Catherine and Barbara; statue of St. Anne from around 1750. Painting on panel from around 1700; miraculous multiplication of the loaves. Organ in neo-Gothic case, built by the Mechelen organ builder Loret in 1863. Restored in 1889, 1907 and 1937. Wooden oxal in neo-Gothic style with parapet, supported by corbels, which rest on coupled natural stone columns. In a neo-Gothic case an organ with Hoofdwerk and Onderpositief, built in 1863 by FB Loret. Restored in 1889, 1907 and 1987.

The Grote Kerk is called in full St. Peter's Chair in Antioch and is dedicated to the apostle Peter. Around the year 1000, there was already a small hall church here. The current church was mainly built from the 14th to the middle of the 16th century in a regional Gothic style, the Maasland Gothic. The church served as both a chapter church and a parish church.

Modern church with tower.

Small church with a tower; replaced the large Pius X church in 1960, which was demolished in 1992.

Replaced a church from 1830. Important neo-Gothic Wolter te Riele church with tower and roof turret at the end of the nave, instead of at the crossing.

Late neo-Romanesque church with high tower. The original construction of a "waterstaatskerk" in 1830-1831 for the Roman Catholic parish community of De Lutte was made possible by gifts from King William I. The waterstaatskerk replaced a barn church built in 1785. This waterstaatskerk was largely demolished in 1930 and rebuilt in the opposite direction, now as a neo-Romanesque cruciform church, under the architecture of Clemens Hardeman from Oldenzaal. Two chandeliers, the cross at the memorial chapel and the baptismal font still date from the old waterstaatskerk from 1831. Most of the beautiful stained glass windows by, among others, the first generation F. Nicolas and Son from Roermond also date from that period. The Stations of the Cross (oil on copper) date from 1915.

The Roman Catholic Church was built in 1939-1940 to replace the old water board church, designed by architect C. Hardeman. The church was consecrated in 1941. The robust building is built in a style related to the Delft School. The recent extension to the side wall near the cemetery is not protected.

Roman Catholic Church St. Plechelmus in Saasveld. The current church replaced a church from 1861 and is located on the grounds of the former Saterslo castle from 1514. The centralizing cruciform church with a front tower in late neo-Gothic style was designed by Herman Kroes from Amersfoort. In the church, the stained glass windows by the Oldenzaal glass artist J. Schoenaker from the 1950s are of great importance.

Roman Catholic Church St. Quirinus, no. 53, built to a design by architect Joseph Cuypers (1861 - 1949) in 1911 in a Neo-Romanesque style. The whole was carried out by contractor M. Bakkeren from Princenhage. The church and rectory are elevated, away from the street.

The modern church design by architect Herman van Wissen (1910-2000) is in line with the innovative liturgical and architectural views in the Roman Catholic Church during the post-war period. The church is a round central building, consisting of a concrete skeleton, a flat dome and a low ambulatory.