Kerk, Loolaan 16

English translation

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Description

Reformed or Great Church; built in the years 1891-1892 to the design of J. Verheul Dzn., a cross-shaped church inspired by early seventeenth-century churches of the Dutch Renaissance; built of yellow-red and orange-red brickwork with bands and decorative details in hard and sandstone and covered below with slate gabled and hipped roofs (Maas tiling).

The eastern and western cross arms are two bays long, are three-sided closed and have against the end gable an attached entrance composition with low storey, under hipped roof with slightly raised middle section and with a central risalit, in which the entrance with hard stone border steps, double doors, semi-circular fanlight and framing of pilasters capped with pediment. The northern and southern cross arms are one bay long and right-angled closed with a pointed gable. Against the end gable of the northern cross arm an extension with storey under lean-to roof and against it a narrow entrance composition under a somewhat lower lean-to roof. Against the south cross arm the richly detailed tower, on which an upper structure consisting of an inswept octagonal spire covered with slate with passage around wooden lantern. In the south gable of the tower richly decorated entrance composition; against east and west gable of the tower a rectangular small extension with above the drip moulding chamfered corners and below with slate covered small hipped roof. Between the south cross arm and the east and west cross arms an obliquely placed entrance portal without storey under with slate covered tent roof. The facades are terminated with a laid cornice and gutter on corbels, vertically articulated by buttresses with two chamfers and horizontally by sandstone bands and a projecting drip moulding; per bay usually three coupled round-arch windows under the drip moulding and a large round-arch window with Renaissance tracery above the drip moulding. In the interior: plastered walls, vertically articulated by pilasters; gallery resting on two columns in the eastern and western cross arm; with the exception of the middle section, originally bench plan of simple painted benches; pulpit and royal pew in neo-Renaissance forms; divided into square compartments, three-sided closed, wooden vault resting on corbel brackets filled with carved work and ornamented, to which tie rods, on stucco consoles.

Richly carved oak organ case. Organ with Great Work, Positive Work and Pedal, made in 1896 by J.F. Witte. In 1978 extended with a swell work by the firm Van Vulpen.

Mechanical tower clock on cast-iron frame made by J.H. Addicks & Zn. in the first quarter of the 20th century. The clock possesses a separate standing winding mechanism with weights.