Nieuwendammerkerk

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Located on the eastern side of the Brede Kerkepad, erected in 1848-1849 in replacement of a smaller and older church building, a HALL CHURCH, named the Nieuwendammerkerk, with accompanying CHURCHYARD. The church was built on commission of the Reformed Church Community Amsterdam. The foundation stone was laid by the son of the minister dr. D.G. van der Horst (to which the initials on this stone still bear witness). The church is built in a sober eclectic style.

Description

Right-angled simple hall church, erected from a combination of yellow IJssel stone and red brick on a hardstone plinth under a gabled roof covered with red tiles that rests not only on the side walls but is also internally supported by struts built into the side walls. Square tower positioned frontally with narrower superstructure and octagonal needle spire covered with slate with elegant wrought-iron finial; in the middle the entrance with tall, narrow and double panel doors. The broad superstructure of the tower, counting three storeys, is provided with corner lisenes on either side of a round-arched spandrel and round-arched windows with iron glazing bars; executed on the ground floor as fanlights and on the first floor coupled in a round-arched spandrel. The second storey contains arched sound holes with slanting sound boards and furthermore rod anchors at the corners. Both tower volumes are enclosed on all four sides by a slightly sloping, pointed and moulded roofline. In the narrower superstructure a round arch with four clock faces. Further mortared cordon lines and hardstone sills. The church is three bays deep and the long sides are provided with round-arched windows and cordon lines. All windows provided with iron glazing bars. To the left of the church mortared access to the churchyard with contemporary gravestones. Churchyard surrounded by iron railings on a mortared basement.

Second entrance in right side gable (S).

The hall church has internally a particularly wooden roof truss structure related to the English 'Hammerbeam' type, with the rafters provided with tie beams. The gravestones still come from the old church. At the back of the church a two-manual mechanical organ, originally with attached pedal, made in 1849 by J. Hoffmeijer. Restored in 1980 by the firm Kaat en Tijhuis from Kampen. The oak seventeenth-century pulpit is decorated with Ionic columnettes. The figures in the carved frieze symbolize the cardinal virtues Faith, Hope and Charity and Truth and Justice. In the cartouches of the panels painted flowers and a swan with the letters SD, probably referring to Sunderdorp, the municipality of which Nieuwendam was once part. The tower contains a bell with the rim inscription: Laus Deo in Aeternam - Henricus Vestrinck Mefecit - Campis anno 1644 (Praise be to God in eternity, Henricus Vestrinck made me in Kampen in 1644).

In the church is a water-level mark indicating how high the maximum water level was at the flood of 1916.

Valuation

Mid-19th-century eclectic hall church with front tower and interior components and with accompanying churchyard of general importance due to architectural and cultural-historical value. Moreover of great situational importance due to the visually determining location on a church path, connected with the spatial-historical development of the dyke village Nieuwendam.