Parochiekerk, Deventerstraat 98

English translation

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Description

Brick-built basilical CRUCIFORM CHURCH with four-sided west tower, polygonally closed transept arms and a polygonal choir. On the north and south sides, various rectangular and polygonal extensions (chapels and sacristy) are set against the side aisles. The tower has an eight-sided structure with virtually identical sides, and comprises three storeys crowned by a spire. On the south side the tower is accompanied to halfway up its height by a round staircase tower crowned by a spire. The nave is covered by a gabled roof with a multi-sided hipped roof over the choir. Over the lower side aisles are hipped roofs with multi-sided endings, all covered with slate in Maas bond. Drainage takes place via (renewed) gutters and in the hipped roofs are some roof dormers. These roof dormers, executed in gothic manner, are covered by helmet caps. Finials are positioned at the ridge ends. Within the brick-built (English bond) facades, natural stone is used for the covering of the buttresses, for windows and for details such as the pinnacles of the tower. The facades have a plinth that is closed by a mortared roll course and above it a high plinth, closed by an offset. The facades are articulated by buttresses, between which are pointed arch windows. Under the eaves run tooth moulds, mortared in profiled brick. Between plinth and eaves, pointed arch windows are mainly applied to the facades, with natural stone tracery in Neo-Gothic manner, in which various types of fish-bladders can be distinguished among other things. The windows are virtually all fitted with stained glass (since the restoration with protective panes). Below the windows is an offset of glazed tile. The main entrance of the church is situated in the narrow FRONT FACADE (west side) and has a straight-closed double wooden door, within a mortared pointed arch, the barrel arch of which is filled with rich gothic tracery. The door is fitted with heavy, wrought-iron ornamental hinges. Above this is a high pointed arch window with tracery. The articulation above this consists of two zones, the lower low zone is filled with three coupled pointed arch windows. Above this in the same vertical axes three coupled sound holes with dampers. The articulation is closed by an arch frieze. Above this is an intermediate zone below the spire, which contains the bell and is fitted with pinnacles at the corners. To the right and left, against the tower, the lower, polygonally closed chapels of the side aisles are attached. The RIGHT SIDE FACADE (south side) has tracery in the form of various types of fish-bladders in the clerestory. The staircase tower is articulated by a segmental arch frieze with concrete abutment pieces. The LEFT SIDE FACADE is virtually identical to the right side facade. The REAR FACADE (east side) is characterised by various rectangular and polygonal extensions with facade detailing as elsewhere.

The INTERIOR of the church has not been altered as regards internal structure. The decoration and seating plan have largely remained original. Changes concern the paintings whitewashed after Vatican II and the altered liturgical centre. The church space consists of a high nave under multi-partite rib vaults and lower side aisles under multi-partite rib vaults. The nave is separated from the side aisles by a pointed arch arcade, supported by round mortared piers of which the masonry has been left unplastered. The choir is polygonally closed and possesses a multi-partite rib vault, as do the transept arms. The church is entered via a shallow draught porch that opens into the tower hall. This porch has tiled wainscoting. On either side of this are the Mary chapel and the baptism chapel, both fitted with floor tiles and wrought-iron railings. The interior still possesses virtually all finely executed wooden doors with letter panels. Among the preserved interior components is also the organ, which comes from the demolished waterways authority church and was built in 1878 by organ builder VAN MAARSCHALKERWEERD from Utrecht. In the tower is a mechanical tower clock by B. Eijsbouts from Asten. In the sacristy, designed with a beam ceiling and blind wall niches, there is a blind niche as a frame for a tabernacle with painted doors fitted with angel figures. The floor of the high choir is laid with marble.

Valuation

R.C. church of the type CRUCIFORM BASILICA (complex component A) built in 1917 to a design by architect KROES

-Of architectural-historical value as a well-preserved and good example of a Catholic church building in the late Neo-Gothic style, which is characterised by a basilical main form and a west tower and is detailed with simple ornamental masonry and gothic pointed arch windows with tracery. The interior, despite the alterations after the Second Vatican, still forms a good example of a church interior from the early twentieth century and furthermore possesses a fine organ by Van Maarschalkerweerd.

-Of urban planning value as the main component of the parish complex on the Deventerstraat. The church forms the focal point of the historically developed neighbourhood Oosterhof and is visually defining through its main form with tower for the wide surroundings.

-Of cultural-historical value as the main component of the complex which is connected to a religious and socio-cultural development and to which a long history is linked. The church building is typologically speaking and in terms of style a late example of the application of Neo-Gothic and shows that this style remained in vogue in Catholic circles for a long time.