Klooster, Grotestraat 71

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The block-shaped CLOISTER WING forms part of the convent of the Monialen Redemptoristinnen sisters at Sambeek and stands perpendicular to the Grotestraat in the village centre, on the southern side of the Roman Catholic church and rectory Sint-Jan de Doper. The building in sober neo-Renaissance style dates from 1873-1874. An older house, dating from before 1873, has been incorporated into the house on the eastern side. Neither the exterior nor the interior show any traces of this.

Description

The three-storey building has been largely enclosed since the construction of objects (2) and (3) against the south and north elevations respectively. The hand-formed brick building has an elongated rectangular floor plan and a hipped roof with old Dutch tiles, on which stand a chimney and a square roof turret with a needle spire crowned by a wrought-iron cross. Simple wooden roof dormers stand on the roof. The masonry of the street elevation, consisting of two window bays, is articulated by two painted ashlar courses. The street elevation and the other elevations are crowned by a profiled stuccoed and painted drip moulding. Windows are arranged at regular intervals on all storeys of the elevations. On the ground floor these are six-pane casement windows with a four-pane fanlight, on the first floor likewise six-pane windows with a simply divided fanlight, and on the second floor four-pane casement windows with a divided fanlight. In the northern elevation, after the addition of the chapel in the second window bay, a window has been replaced by a bolted door in a shallow porch on the ground floor. Against the southern elevation of this wing stands a wooden veranda along its entire length with carved posts and corbels and a catslide roof with old Dutch tiles. This extension probably dates from 1888. Against the northern elevation stands an old brick pump with a wrought-iron handle.

In the very sober interior of this cloister wing, the following are of particular importance: the corridors on all three storeys located on the southern side with a floor of Namur stone (on the upper storeys simple wooden boarding), the recreation hall and the former chapel (of which a printed pointed-arch toge between two rooms remains) on the ground floor, and the cells (with present-day library and former tailoring workshop) on the first and second floors. The building is undercellared. In the cellars (partly used as a heating room), furnished with round-arch toges, barrel and trough vaults, the following are of particular importance: a commemorative stone placed for the sisters who died here in 1944, the old tile floor, the fly-traps and the apple rack. The cellar windows are fitted with theft bars.

Valuation

The cloister building is of general importance. It has cultural-historical value as an example of spiritual development, namely the flourishing of religious orders and congregations in the nineteenth century, and is also of importance as an example of the typological development of the contemplative, self-sufficient monastery in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

It is of architectural-historical importance because of the style, which expresses the sober restrained way of life in a closed character and simple ornamentation. It has ensemble values because of the coherence of convent, farmhouse and garden. It is also of importance in connection with the development of the church village.