Kerk en kerkonderdeel, Poststraat 1

English translation

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Description

Dutch Reformed village church dating from 1848-49, built in brick partly on the site of a larger Medieval predecessor against whose remaining church tower it was constructed, under a composition of hipped and gabled roofs covered with blue tiles with running cornice, and centrally situated on the elevated churchyard, now surrounded by a low wall. The five-bay hall church has high round-arched windows all around with wooden glazing bars and a three-sided closed choir with two later transverse wings on either side and an 18th-century family chapel with bevelled corners at the height of the third bay on the south side. On the corners of the nave and transverse wings, buttresses have been installed - partly diagonal - with sandstone coping plates, while pilasters have been placed against the walls of the nave and choir, provided with rod anchors. In the first bay on the north side a memorial stone from 1848 is built in; the memorial stone in the southern transverse wing commemorates the enlargement of 1890 with both transverse wings, which are further provided with a side entrance with double doors. The built-in front tower dates originally presumably from the late 15th century, but was rebuilt in 1618, restored in 1871, most recently renovated in 1955 and thereby stripped of 19th-century plasterwork. The church tower has diagonal, progressively tapering buttresses and comprises four storeys, of which the uppermost forms the bell storey, each with two pointed-arch-shaped louvred openings and a dial with gilded numerals and hands on each of the four sides. Bell frame with bell by anonymous caster, presumably Geert van Wou, 1493, diam. 70.5 cm. Mechanical French tower clock mechanism, 1902, later provided with electric winding.

The tower further has a pointed-arch-shaped, profiled sparing with small stained-glass fanlight and double basket-arch-shaped entrance doors, leading to the tower portal covered by cross-ribbed vaults, two sparings with recessed windows closed by shutters, and is terminated by an octagonal, compressed spire with slates in Rhine roofing, crowned by a weathervane with cock. The whitewashed church interior is covered by an inset pressed barrel vault with wooden components and iron tie rods between the cornice lines; in the vault two carved grilles with partly gilded star and daisy pattern. On the tower side is the wooden organ gallery accessible from two sides, with the organ made by the firm Knipscheer in 1849 in its corresponding case, donated by C. Santhagens. In the partition wall below three, and above two profiled panel doors from the time of construction, of which the middle one is double. The organ gallery was extended in 1905 with a forward arch and has since been carried by four wooden columns of the Doric order, made from the masts of a then wrecked ship; the gilded inscription texts on the front of the organ gallery commemorate this. On the choir side stands the 18th-century oak pulpit with brass lectern positioned in the middle with on either side above the round-arched doors two finely painted mourning boards with classical surrounds, respectively from 1694 in remembrance of Captain Mattheus de la Cave (right) and from 1720 in memory of Lady Johanna Margrietha Corbet (left) and around on the floor the remaining 17th- and 18th-century gravestones from the former church. The brass baptismal font from 1655, which was once attached to the pulpit, and likewise the 18th-century brass lectern for the lay reader were placed on a modern wooden base during the restoration of 1964-65. In the northern transverse wing the 18th-century - relocated - gentlemen's bench with the coats of arms (with partly modern additions) of the lords of Zandvoort. Both transverse wings contain a small gallery, which is accessible from the side portal. The consistory room is located in the northeastern part of the choir set apart for this purpose. On the south side, at the height of the third bay, the preserved 18th-century family chapel, according to memorial stone restored in 1920, built in 1728 by order of the feudal lord of Zandvoort, Paulus Loot. This family chapel has a marble entrance portal with Composite columns, broken pediment, provided with sculptured coats of arms, death symbols, and a lead figure with plumb line, reminiscent of the patron, and finely wrought grave railing. The actual chapel has white-stuccoed walls in Louis XVI style and marble floor plates around the marble grave cover with four brass rings; on the south side a stained-glass window designed by George Rueter, executed by atelier Bogtman, installed in 1920 in commemoration of the First World War. The mid-19th-century hall church with later transverse wings, originally Medieval tower, 18th-century family chapel and interior components from the former village church and from the time of construction, is of significance due to architecture characteristic of the various building periods, the interior components dating from different periods, yet all made for the Zandvoort church, and the striking location on the elevated churchyard in the village centre. N.B. The flat-roofed low annexe on the northeastern side of the choir falls outside the protection. N.B.2 This description serves to supplement and replace the current description whereby the tower and some interior components are protected, but the church is named only on account of these components.