Kerk, Sint Wilbertsplein 12

English translation

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Description

R.C. Church. St. Willibrorduskerk, originally dedicated to Peter, Paul and Lambert and founded before 721, when it became the own church of Willibrordus. The present church consists of a basilical nave of four bays, restored in 1721 after a fire in 1708, a neogothic transept, a choir renewed in the 19th century and a tower from the beginning of the 16th century, restored in 1721 and again in 1840. From 1648 to 1818 Reformed. The tower is provided with richly carved diagonal buttresses and enlivened with pointed arch panels; crowned by a spire tapered from four- to eight-sided. Interior: round columns and wooden barrel vaults; in the choir two wall recesses with natural stone moulding, in one of which a 15th-century iron tabernacle cupboard. Inventory: oak pulpit (18th century) on a stone base, the body decorated with carved work and busts of the Evangelists; two 18th-century oak confessionals with composite pilasters; four early 19th-century oak confessionals with composite pilasters; four early 19th-century oak statues; Peter and Paul, John the Evangelist and Willibrordus (the last two polychrome). 18th-century painting depicting Dominicus receiving the rosary from Mary. 17th-century crown, ten-light twice. Many brass candelabra and wall sconces; neogothic glazing and pews with carved ends. Neogothic organ balustrade. The 18th-century inventory pieces come from the barn church which stood on Kerkstraat.