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Charming neo-Romanesque church with tower designed by AAJ Margry, built to replace a church from 1833.

Originally, Klein Zundert had a medieval church. This building was restored somewhat around 1610, after severe damage in the Eighty Years' War, and made usable, and partly provided with a new interior. In 1645, further renovation and restoration followed, during which armorial glasses were also installed, made by the 'glass writer' Jean de la Habarre. Again, new altars were installed, including two side altars with lecterns, by Alph. Jordaens, and a pulpit by Hendrik van Velmen, modelled on the one in Minderhout.

St. Willibrordus, 1866-1873, Pierre Cuypers (1827 - 1921) . Three-aisled neo-Gothic hall church without transept. Pointed gables on the side aisle bays. Tower with two niches in each facade, frontals and four-sided spire. Articulated brick pillars with moulded capitals, cross-ribbed vaults. Polychrome interior with painted brick; furnishings and glazing from the construction period, from the Cuypers & Stolzenberg studio in Roermond. The windows in the nave partly come from the St. Martinus church in Foxham-Martenshoek, which closed in 1990. Early work from Cuypers' second period, influenced by the Westphalian hall church Gothic. Mechanical tower clock.

A church was already mentioned in Berkel in 1214. It is known that the building was renovated in 1440. In 1983, large foundations of that church were exposed in, among other places, the garage of the rectory.

Hall church on an almost rectangular plan, consisting of a partly exposed concrete skeleton, filled with brick. A detached, openwork bell tower and semi-detached baptismal chapel to the side. Front facade with simple narthex. The central nave is covered by a curved concrete shell roof. As a whole, the church is an important example of renewal, also a fairly exceptional early example of modernism in Roman Catholic church architecture from the 1950s. This church is listed as a Municipal Monument of the Netherlands.

Early churches: The first church, the 15th-century Nicolaaskerk , still exists, but has been in Protestant hands since the Reformation. In the 17th and 18th centuries, masses were celebrated in houses and farms in the area. In 1804, the Catholics of Oldemarkt submitted a request to be allowed to build a church in the village, but it was not until 1828-1829 that this plan could be realised. This church, which stood on the site of the current one, was initially dedicated to St. Nicholas (according to Van der Aa in 1846) and only later in the 19th century to St. Willibrord. After it separated from Steggerda and Steenwijkerwold, Oldemarkt became an independent station in 1825 (according to Voets; Leeuwenberg mentions a deed of foundation from 1850). This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

The current church dates from 1860 and is a typical work in the oeuvre of HJ Wennekers, built under the influence of the so-called stucco Gothic style.

The church replaced a neo-Gothic church from 1864 with a medieval tower that was destroyed in 1944. Sober post-war village church without a tower, designed by Alphonse Boosten (1893-1951); one of his last works. A wooden bell tower was placed next to the church, in which the St. Catherine bell from 1416 was hung. In 1979, this bell tower was replaced by a concrete open bell tower next to the church, designed by PW Lerou.

Church without tower. Built as Reformed Church . As such out of use in 1957. After renovation and extension with transept and choir in 1958 in use as Roman Catholic St. Willibrordus Church.

The Sint-Willibrorduskerk in Kloosterburen is a neo-Gothic church building, designed by PJH Cuypers. The church replaced an earlier Catholic church from 1842, which soon proved to be too small. The church was built by the parish itself.