Sociale zorg, liefdadigheid, Begijnenstraat 25

English translation

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Description

Protestant Children's Orphanage.

Number 25-27: Two presumed still sixteenth-century buildings under a high hipped roof, modernised in the first quarter of the nineteenth century with wooden cornices, carved doors and sash windows in the windows.

29: Late medieval buildings, L-shaped around an inner courtyard and covered by high hipped roofs. In the wing along the Begijnenstraat a brick frieze of pointed arches. The facades at the inner courtyard have masonry pilasters of the colossal order, ground floor windows with curved and upper floor windows with triangular pediments. Richly treated natural stone gate. The facade architecture executed in 1644 by Salomon de Bray in Haarlem.

Internally, amongst other things, sixteenth-century and later keystones, a regents' room with Louis XV stuccoed ceiling, wainscoting, doors and overdoors. Fireplace, 1760. Cellar with herringbone vaults. Access gate on the Begijnenstraat. Brick gate with pediment, flanked by sculpted baskets with fruit. On either side figures of orphan children (1618-1644).

On the rear side a brick access gate with fluted pilasters: principal cornice and superstructure with pediment and scroll side pieces, probably 1638, originating from the Roman Catholic Orphanage on the Doddendaal and here replaced during the restoration of the Protestant Orphanage, 1959.