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Neoclassical church with tower, the crowning of which dates from 1951.

The original parish church (Petrus' Banden) of Oisterwijk is returned to the Roman Catholics during the reign of King Lodewijk Napoleon. For an amount of ƒ 7,000, a new church for the Reformed (later Protestant) will be built. Mr. Hubert is given and accepts the assignment to design the drawings of the new church and to draw up the associated specifications, cost estimates, etc. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

The church is a hall building with three-sided closure, four bays deep, under a saddle roof. The consistory room has a hipped roof. Both roofs are covered with natural stone slates in a mesh covering. On the square a symmetrical pilaster facade with a projecting portal with a pediment and pinnacle. The stepped gable has a climbing arch frieze, clock face with clockwork, horizontal bands and a plastered plinth. Furthermore, the facade is crowned by a square bell tower with a tower roof and weather vane. The tower carries a carillon of eighteen bells. The rising masonry consists of red machine-made bricks laid in cross bond. The nave has lisene-like pilasters. In the arch drum above the large window of the front facade decorative brickwork. Cement spring and keystones in pointed arch and arch frieze. The wall openings of the church are provided with cast iron Gothic pointed arch windows with diamond-shaped bars. In the transom of the portal and in the round window of the rear facade a geometric rod division. The interior has a stuccoed cross-ribbed vault with iron tie rods. In the outer wall cast iron wall anchors. In the church an octagonal oak pulpit from 1740 with copper lectern, baptismal font and wooden sounding board with golden halo, made by the carpenter Godefridus Scheepers from Heeze.

The church, built in 1832, is known for its particularly richly carved pulpit, marked and dated: A. Jelles 1604; originating from Harlingen.

Reformed Church and tower, situated on a churchyard. Simple church building from 1757 with built-in west tower. In the church 17th century pulpit, baptismal fence and four pews, one 17th century and three 18th century gravestones. Two-manual organ made in 1891 by Bakker and Timmenga. In the roof turret hangs a clock by F. Haetiser, 1546, diameter 101 cm. Mechanical tower clock G. Delouche, Paris.

Beautiful interbellum church in the style of the Groningen variant of the Amsterdam School, with characteristic needle as a tower. Nowadays in the possession of the Protestant Community of Nieuwolda-Oostwold. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Dutch Reformed Church. Founded in 1812, rebuilt in 1857. Simple brick building, in plan an elongated back, with flat buttresses, pointed arch windows and roof turret. 17th century oak pulpit, bell cast in 1626, originating from the castle in Helmond.

Reformed Church. Single-nave building, 15th? with built-in late Romanesque tower. Against the east wall an extension with burial vault of the Du Peyrou family; alliance coat of arms in the facade, 18th. Baptismal fence 17th, copper baptismal arch 1729. Pew, 18th, Epitaph, 1785. Gravestones, 16-17th. Copper chandelier and three copper candle arms, 18th. Organ with main work and secondary work, made in 1876 by P. Flaes. Bell frame with clock by François and Pieter Hemony, 1650, diam. 107.5 cm. Mechanical tower clock by Eijsbouts, 1934, with electric winding.

Reformed church, built in 1812, rebuilt in 1861. Simple brick hall church in plan an elongated octagon, closed on three sides on the north and south sides, with a small tower on the roof. In the west wall a memorial stone for the foundation. The church has an oak pulpit with hourglass holder and copper lectern, all 18th century. Oak bell frame, 1813, with bell by anonymous founder, ca. 1812-1830.

Built to replace "Het Lokaal" from 1889. Modern church with tower.