Pastorie Heilig Willibrordus

English translation

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Description

Introduction

North of the church dedicated to Saint Willibrordus stands the R.C. RECTORY dating from 1863. The rectory garden is separated from the street on the north west side by a ditch and is accessible via a cast-iron gate (1865) on a bridge approach. In 1938 a connecting corridor to the church was built on the south side of the rectory whereby the south wing was partly modified.

Description

The single-storey building on a U-shaped plan has a main building under a gabled roof covered with slate in Maas bond and is flanked by two wings under hipped roofs covered with interlocking tiles and old Dutch tiles.

The building is constructed of handmade brick with a stone plinth on the front facade. The gables have cement-rendered coping. The north facade is plastered. The window and door openings, except for the (semi-)round ones, are all placed under slightly arched stretches and have stone thresholds. In the symmetrical five-bay front facade centrally a partly glazed hinged door with three divisions, slightly arched fanlight and wrought-iron door grille. On either side of the door two six-pane casement windows with divided fanlight. At the top of the facade a frieze separated by a brick string course which transitions into a pediment containing a divided round window flanked by two half-round windows with metal glazing bars. In the identical rear facade above the central door a slightly arched fanlight with metal glazing bars containing stained-glass infill. Both facades have a brick gutter on corbels at the top.

In the side facades on the storey two four-pane casement windows with divided fanlight. In the top an opening casement window. In the south facade a stone panel reading THE FIRST STONES / OF THIS BUILDING WERE LAID / BY THE R.C. CHURCH AUTHORITIES / D.W.E.H.J. AARTS PASTOR / J. BOSCH AND J. VENNIX / CHURCHWARDENS / 14-4-1863. The wing on the south side, covered with interlocking tiles, has a six-pane sash window in the street-facing facade. In the south facade three two-pane casement windows with theft guards. Part of this south facade is, like the rear and north side facade, substantially modified or bricked in. In the latter still an original panel door with fanlight containing stained-glass infill.

The wing on the north side, covered with old Dutch tiles, has a casement window with divided fanlight on the street side. In the north facade two six-pane sash windows and two two-pane lights. In the rear facade, bordering the garden, a hinged gate at the top rounded under a constructed round arch. The south facade is occupied by two hinged doors with divided fanlight, a casement window and a bricked-in round-arch window.

On the street side, on a stone plinth, two partly wrought-iron, partly cast-iron gate piers between which a wrought-iron hinged gate, comparable with that at the rectory in Vessem. The gate piers are flanked on the ditch side by cast-iron scrolls to prevent climbing over. In the gate piers 'ANNO' and '1865'.

Valuation

The rectory is of general importance. It has cultural-historical significance as a particular expression of the development of Catholicism in the south and is also of importance for the typological development of the village rectory. It has architectural-historical value because of its style and detailing and the way in which a representative character is achieved with simple motifs. The building has ensemble values in connection with the later-built parish church and has been preserved in good condition.