H.H. Cyriacus/Franciscus

English translation

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Description

H.H. Cyriacus and Franciscus, built by A.C. Bleys in 1879-'82.

Three-aisled CRUCIFORM BASILICA in Neo-Renaissance forms. Symmetrically arranged front facade set at an angle to the axis. Entrance portal with segmental pediment, crowned by a cross. Saint's statue beneath a canopy on a pendant. Large, horizontally divided central window in Renaissance forms, flanked by similar blind recesses beneath a gabled top with palmette. The flanking towers, built up in three storeys, have on the lower storey with rusticated work a door with divided fanlight, a Renaissance window with central pilaster and a round light in the second storey, which, by means of chamfered corners, transitions into the polygonal third storey with balustrade decorated with palmettes and obelisks, containing blind recesses and sound holes. Dome-shaped roof covering with slate. Beside them stairwells with straight cornice and slate roofs running onto the towers. Light openings in Renaissance forms.

Large octagonal crossing dome with Renaissance windows, roof gables and openwork lantern with cross. Side-aisle bays and transept arms provided with simple gabled tops. Five-sided closed choir with a sacristy at the side with dome-shaped roofed turret staircase.

In the interior the nave has a three-part elevation: arcades divided by marble pillars that open with a depressed arch towards the side aisles, provided with brickwork vaults between iron ribs, openings, above which a gallery with per bay segmental arches coupled by double columnettes with Corinthian capitals and a clerestory with Renaissance windows in the nave and paintings on canvas in the transept arms. Nave and transept arms, covered by wooden barrel vaults with coffered division, open with an unribbed semicircular arch onto the crossing, covered by dome on pendentives. The drum divided by fluted consoles beneath contains a text. In the eight fields of the dome among others a depressed arch with mask and an oculus.

Organ gallery, beneath which entrance section, with organ with terminations as the west towers. Stained glass windows by among others F. Nicolas & Zonen, Roermond from 1914, in the transept gables windows from 1903, in the choir from 1901. Stations of the Cross in the side-aisle walls. Wooden (partly built-in) confession boxes in Renaissance forms. In the side chapels painting by Jan Dunselman.

The inventory further includes an oak pulpit from 1756 by W.F. Krayenschot and a pieta, wood, last quarter of the 15th century, from the former hidden church.

The church in question represents an architectural movement that was little common in 19th-century Roman Catholic church building and can thereby be considered as a preliminary study for Bleys' St. Nicolaaskerk in Amsterdam. The church is a very important and characteristic element in the townscape of Hoorn.

Building of general interest due to archaeological and art-historical value. Organ made in 1883 by M. Maarschalkerweerd with use of some older pipework (early 19th century). The mechanical action was replaced by electro-pneumatic in 1937.