Kerk, Graauwedijk 61

English translation

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Description

Description

HALL CHURCH in austere Public Works style built in 1880, constructed in reddish-brown brick on a slightly projecting tuff base of reddish-brown clinker bricks. The gabled roof at the rear (southeast) with half-hipped end, covered with black Frisian pantiles, has a cast-iron gutter on bedded stone blocks. The front facade (northwest) with pilasters continued at the corners with a plastered coping cap, has in the centre a slightly projecting tower section terminated by a flat roof with cornice and surrounding a wooden worked-up fence; on the roof stands a wooden small tower with tapered spire, covered with shingles (originally slates) and crowned by a weathervane with gilded rooster. In the tower section is located the main entrance consisting of a stucco-framed double panel door with two cast-iron panels at the top, under a semicircular cast-iron fanlight with decorative glazing bars; in front of the door a rendered step (three treads); above the door a foundation stone with "Reformed Church, built 1880", a cast-iron semicircular arched window with glazing bars and at the apex an iron grille window. On either side of the main entrance is a semicircular arched window with a triangular plastered field above. Both side facades are articulated by five bedded buttresses and four cast-iron semicircular arched windows under a projecting roll moulding. The rear facade has a buttress on both corners and is articulated by four pilasters, of which those at the corners are continued; in the middle of the gable is a cast-iron grille window.

The VESTRY is connected via a flat neck in partly red brick and partly wood (not original) to the rear facade of the church. The vestry consists of reddish-brown brick and has a gabled roof covered with quick-laid pantiles (not original) and a partly renewed gutter on bedded stone blocks. The east facade has five T-windows with fanlight with two vertical glazing bars and a blocked-up door opening (not original); the south facade two T-windows and in the gable an iron grille window; the west facade three blocked-up window openings (originally T-windows) and a door (renewed). Both door and windows have a roll moulding as closure.

In the INTERIOR of the church are notably: the wooden pulpit bowl with a staircase on one side with decorative cast-iron rails; the hexagonal sounding board; the wooden wall panelling; the two rows of wooden church benches; the church council benches to the left and right of the pulpit; the wooden organ loft with balustrade with decorative cast-iron spindles, resting on two round, veined wooden columns; the organ case; the plastered barrel vault with iron tie rods; the entrance vestibule with wooden walls and panel doors.

Valuation

Dutch Reformed hall church from 1880 with attached vestry from 1920 of general importance due to cultural and architectural-historical value

- as an intact example of a Reformed church from 1880 in the province of Groningen

- due to the austere yet carefully executed design in Public Works style

- due to the still largely intact interior

- due to the functional and spatial relationship with the adjacent parsonage

- due to the characteristic location on the through road, in the middle of the village