Kerk, Doctor van Noortstraat 86

English translation

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Description

Introduction

R.C. ST. LAWRENCE CHURCH dating from 1871-1873 designed by E.J. Margry in neogothic architectural style.

Description

A three-aisled, basilical cruciform church constructed in brick with the use of natural stone, executed on a mortared plinth faced with hardstone, beneath a set of gabled and lean-to roofs covered with Maas slate, with a five-sided closed choir, entrance tower on a square base with three stages and a spire and on the right side of the tower a small five-sided stair tower.

The facades are articulated horizontally by drip mouldings and single or in pairs coupled pointed-arch windows with stained glass and topped by a string course. Central nave measuring six bays, separated by buttresses, and a tower bay.

Side walls of transept with three coupled lancet windows above which a natural stone rose window is placed. Tower with in the first stage a large pointed-arch-shaped entrance with double wooden door with a plastered moulding in the archivolt on consoles in which a fanlight is set with three lancet windows and a small quatrefoil. On the transition to the relatively closed second stage machicolations. Third stage with lancet-shaped openings with louvres topped by crockets and on four sides a clock face. The interior of the church is largely executed in exposed brickwork. Three-part wall construction consisting of pointed arches, a blind triforium with three coupled blind basket-arch windows, above which the clerestory, consisting of three lancet windows filled with coloured stained glass. Red-coloured clustered pillars on hardstone bases with varied foliate capitals from which among other things the whitewashed colonettes rise on which the vault springers of the roof rest. The central nave is vaulted by a wooden barrel vault painted in mosaic pattern in soft colours with palmette motifs among others. Choir and side aisles are vaulted in brick. At the rear of the church is the organ gallery with openwork balustrade in neogothic vocabulary. Neogothic main altar in marble and oak wood with biblical representations by the firm Cuypers from 1929. Baptismal chapel with original tile floor designed by E.J. Margry with a baptismal font executed in various types of marble with neogothic cover; the chapel is closed off by a red-gold painted ornamental grille made by J. Geilswijk. Original tile floor in the central nave and side aisles in black and red tile patterns, in the choir in yellow, white and black tile patterns. In the choir still some parts of nineteenth-century wall paintings. Original wooden benches in central and side aisles. Three neogothic confessionals, two of which are partly built into the wall. Five late-nineteenth-century small sculptures, originating from the old pulpit, are placed against the left side wall of the transept. In the small altar table an early-twentieth-century relief with a representation from the former communion rail. Further some nineteenth-century polychromed sacred figures under baldachins (St. Anna van Santen on a painted column with signature on plinth by Iac Verhagen; St. Lawrence likewise on a painted column and St. Caecilia). Multicoloured stained-glass windows with representations of Christ and saints in the choir; other stained-glass windows in the transept and side aisles with stylised patterns in light, soft colours. Further original doors. Mechanical tower clock, B. Eijsbouts, early 1900s. In the vestry is set in the wall a small seventeenth-century white marble holy water stoup with a representation of the crucifixion.

Valuation

R.C. St. Lawrence Church, dating from 1871-1873 by architect E.J. Margry, with well-preserved interior and interior components, is of general importance because of its architectural and cultural historical values as an example of a well-preserved neogothic church from the oeuvre of E.J. Margry. The church, main component of the complex, has furthermore situational value because of its distinctive location in the centre of Stompwijk.