Familiegraf Van Tienhoven

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Above-ground FAMILY VAULT dating from 1906 of the Van Tienhoven family. The entrance section of this hillside mausoleum, designed in rural style, was designed by architect J.Th.J. Cuypers (1861-1949). The client was the banker Mr. Gijsbert van Tienhoven (1841-1914). The slates on the roof of the entrance section have been replaced with shingles.

Description

Above-ground family vault located in a hill which accommodates eighteen coffins. The symmetrically arranged entrance section consists of a small building erected on an almost square ground plan (approximately 3.55 m wide and 3.30 m deep) which is completely open at the front and of which the rear and side walls are built in red machine-made Dutch brick in stretcher-header bond with cut joints under a gently sloping and somewhat overhanging hipped roof. The latter adjoins the back wall executed as a spout gable and topped with sandstone, into which a clamped access door of glazed oak wood is hung from two horseshoe-shaped thumb hinges which rest on sandstone thumb stones. Above the door is a sandstone lintel with the inscription "SEEK YOUR DEAD AMONG THE LIVING" and above that a flat relief also executed in sandstone depicting an ascending woman surrounded by angels. The front section of the side walls is built up to half height and here, as well as the front of the side walls, is covered with sandstone. On these sandstone coping stones rests a low octagonal corner post of glazed oak wood provided with in- and out-swinging profiled corbels. Against the inside of both side walls hangs a white marble memorial plaque with below it a simple granite bench which adjoins the back wall. The rectangular memorial plaques have a stylised floral decorative border in which symbols of transience are incorporated (including poppies and butterflies). Each memorial plaque lists eight deceased with their first names (spouses also with their surname) and birth and death dates. The roof is executed as a collar-tie roof truss. The floor consists of yellow unglazed tiles with a border of yellow Dutch brick at the front. Approximately eight metres in front of the entrance the family grave is marked by two low granite posts between which runs an iron chain. The left post bears the inscription "FAMILY GRAVE", the right one "VAN TIENHOVEN".

Valuation

The funerary monument is of general importance due to its cultural historical value as a characteristic and well-preserved early 20th-century above-ground family vault on the Westerveld cemetery; due to its funerary-historical and genealogical value; due to its design.