Kerk, De Tange 3

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Of the simple CHURCH near Raard which was built under Eclectic architecture with influences of Transitional architecture, according to the commemorative stone to the right of the entrance "THE FIRST STONE / LAID BY / K.J. POSTMA / 29 MAY 1918". The hall church replaces a church from 1893, probably on the same site, of which the commemorative stone is set into the draught porch with the inscription: "ON 2 SEPT 1893 / THE FIRST STONE / LAID BY / T.J TOLSMA / PS 92, v 14-16."

The interior of the church is virtually entirely original and possesses virtually all the original furnishings.

The church grounds were formerly separated from the public road by a ditch; the dam is still recognizable in the access path. The church is connected on the rear by a connecting section to a hall.

Description

The hall church has broadly a rectangular ground plan with a projecting porch, on the side facades three-sided extensions with side entrances and on the rear a church hall with vestry room. The church is built in brown brick enlivened with red wire-cut brick bands and stretcher arches, cast stone quoin stones, nog blocks and sandstone lintels. The gabled hipped roof is principally covered with clipped cross pantiles. The tower spire and the cappings of the side portals are covered with slates in Maas covering. The front facade is visually divided into two storeys by the grouping of paired round-arched windows with coloured stained glass under stretcher arch and is symmetrically arranged. On the central axis a projecting porch bay and an almost flush tower; on either side the paired round-arched windows and on the corners once receding corner pilasters, which continue in a corbelled and climbing frieze that adjoins the tower body under the belfry storey. The gable list of the main porch has quoin stones, a roll moulding and a projecting drip moulding with simple deep relief; in the gable top a commemorative stone with a biblical text from Matthew 28:20. The round-arched closed entrance under stretcher course and on natural stone quoins has a porte brisée under a sandstone lintel and a two-step sandstone stoep. In the segmental fanlight is a rose window with brick tracery. In the tower body are from bottom to top: a round-arched window with coloured stained glass, a loft hatch under a sandstone lintel and the belfry storey without bell. On all four sides of the roof turret are sound holes under a sandstone lintel and with sounding boards. The tower spire has on four sides a climbing list under the gable tops and is concluded by a four-sided pinched spire with a wrought iron finial with pomegranate, fixed weathervane and weather cock. Both side facades are five window bays deep and articulated by once receding pilasters; each bay has a paired set of round-arched windows of different sizes with coloured stained glass. The facades are enlivened by bands in red wire-cut brick, along the lower and upper windowsill of the windows. In the middle of the side facades a gable which according to the same principle is detailed as the main porch, with a three-sided capping in which a side entrance under a roll moulding and two round-arched windows. The capping is covered with slates in Maas covering. On the rear of the church an entrance under an arched stretcher course to the church hall. This entrance is still recognizable in the connecting section in the right side facade. In the hall and the vestry room six paired three-light round-arched windows between pilasters.

The INTERIOR of the church is structurally sound. The flush tower is determinative for the draught porch at the main entrance. The tower body is enclosed. To the church hall are two doors. The church hall has a boarded ceiling with ventilation grilles. The roof truss has a spring-work structure and iron tie rods. The simple pew plan with theatre-like arrangement and two aisles is original. Opposite the entrance is the platform pulpit, above which the organ. The side entrances give via a small hall access to the church hall and the vestry room. The interior contains among other things the following valuable components: the original pews with simple linear deep relief on the pew ends, the door framings and the platform pulpit. In the side porches the ceilings have the original stencilled decoration. In the vestry room the original hinged panel wall. On the organ gallery stands a single-manual organ by the firm Bakker & Timmenga from Leeuwarden in a carved case. Organ and organ case are not of value from the point of view of monument conservation. According to an inscription on the inside of the door, it was placed on 22 March 1908, presumably in the old church. The original disposition has been extended.

Valuation

The Reformed church, built in 1918 under Eclectic architecture, is of general cultural-historical value:

- as a characteristic example of traditional church building of the Reformed,

- because of the high degree of architectural soundness of the exterior and of the interior,

- because of the reasonable degree of aesthetic quality of the design,

- because of the particular material use and ornamentation, in particular of the interior,

- because of the high degree of importance as a visually defining object outside the village.