pastorie Sint Jozefkerk

English translation

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Description

Introduction RECTORY, situated on one side free-standing at the north of the Radesingel and on the other side separated from and connected with the Sint Jozefkerk (already a national monument) by a covered passage, built in 1886-1887 after a design by architect P.J.H. Cuypers in an eclectic architectural style with neo-Gothic stylistic characteristics in brick. The building is still in use as a rectory of the Sint Jozefkerk. Description The building is constructed on a rectangular floor plan and consists of a basement with two storeys under a hipped roof cut short, covered with slates. The facades are constructed from orange-red brick and are enlivened with bands of yellow brick and thereby connect with the architecture of the church. The front facade is four bays wide; the eastern corner bay projects slightly and is crowned by a corner tower with a hexagonal roof, covered with slates and crowned with a wrought-iron spire. The entrance is placed on the ground floor in the covered passage between rectory and church in a slightly sunken field with segmental arch. The brickwork above the entrance is decorated with brickwork in yellow and red stone and a dentil pattern and is topped with slanting placed sandstone slabs. The ground floor facade of the building has a rectangular bay window installed in 1917 with single side lights and a threefold central light. The fanlights have coloured stained glass with centrally placed representations of biblical figures. The arch drums above have ornamental filling of yellow and black stone. All windows are straight-headed and have wooden cross windows with jamb stonework. The storey windows have segmental arches with bevelled edge; the sunken arch drums are filled with tracery of yellow and red brick. All sub-sills are of sandstone. The facade brickwork of the three western bays is finished by a brick frieze with above it a sandstone rain gutter, constructed from segments and supported by sandstone blocks. The small corner tower with window is composed of wooden framing and provided with diagonal tracery. On the front roof apron two cappelle are placed. A wrought-iron fence, placed on a sandstone band, borders the front garden and the front facade. Internally among others of importance the tiled hall, the rectory room with wooden wainscoting and the stained glass windows. Valuation Rectory, beautifully designed in an eclectic architectural style with neo-Gothic stylistic characteristics in brick and richly provided with natural stone elements, of general importance because of its cultural-historical and architectural-historical value, in particular because of the proportions of the building mass and the functional and decorative coherence with the adjacent Sint Jozefkerk. Moreover the building is of importance because of its significance for the history of Catholic church building in Groningen and for the oeuvre of architect P.J.H. Cuypers.