This church is credited to H.W. Valk and his son G.H.F. Valk, but there is at least one source that adds another two architects; H.W. Valk Jr. and F.H. Stoks. The first obviously is another son of H.W. Valk whose role in the project is unclear, the other an architect from Venlo who often lend his name to projects by architects from outside the province, to make it easier for them to get commissioned. In this case because the diocese of Roermond was not eager to give Valk any more assignments, after several bad experiences.
One can only wonder why it would have needed four architects to build this church anyway, or even three. Only a few years earlier a church by H.W. Valk and G.H.F. Valk had been built in Apeldoorn that was very similar in layout to this one; a christocentric church with a protruding front flanked by two towers of different height, a transept that far exceeded the width of the nave and a square crossing-tower. Differences were mainly the shapes of the windows and the arrangement of the towers.
An earlier design from 1953 for the church in Arcen showed a different front, with two towers of equal height standing slighty more forward than the facade. This design was not accepted.