Kerk, Tsjerkebuorren 1

English translation

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Description

Reformed Church and tower on enclosed churchyard. Substantial village church, as is the tower which was built in 1544, largely Late Gothic. Against the east side of the choir a framed entrance upon which three small figures and memorial stone above; on the door copper knocker; on the south side a framed entrance, as is the eastern one from 1650; in the southern wall memorial stone in remembrance of Eise Eisinga. In the church oak choir enclosure, pulpit with back panel and sounding board, baptism gate, seven canopied gentlemen's benches crowned by superstructures, all seventeenth-century. Five psalm boards, eighteenth-century. Under the floor a large number of richly sculptured gravestones, including one by Vincent Lucas and one by mr B.G. 1572, two priest's gravestones, sixteenth-century and one severely worn sixteenth-century gravestone, four large sculptured gravestones, sixteenth-century; from the seventeenth century one large from 1667, one by mr I.T. 1642, and four other sculptured gravestones, one large eighteenth-century. Original organ with Great Work and Back Work made in 1653 by Arnold and Tobias Bader. Extensively rebuilt by Bakker and Timmenga in 1918 using the case and part of the Bader pipework. On the church eighteenth-century weathervane. Bell frame with chime of two bells, of which one by G. van Wou, 1493, diameter 138.1 centimetre and one modern bell. Mechanical tower clock.