Kerk, Meinardswei 3

English translation

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Description

Reformed Church and Tower on raised churchyard. Deep single-aisle church, largely constructed of alternating layers of red and yellow large brick from the fifteenth-sixteenth century with the use of a thirteenth-century section in which niches with decorative brickwork. Two sixteenth-century entrance doorways. The tower is dated on a stone 1505. Since the fire of 1947 the church contains a nineteenth-century pulpit from the Mennonite church of Blija. Organ made in 1785 with Grand Orgue and Positif. The southern organ was acquired from Welsrijp, after the Hinsz organ was lost in the church fire of 1947. Five carved eighteenth-century hymn boards. A number of sixteenth/eighteenth-century gravestones as well as a number of gravestones transferred from the Galilean church in Leeuwarden. Bell frame with bell by J. van Bergen (J. Noteman), 1951 (1648), diameter 147 centimetres. Recast bell with preservation of old inscription and ornamentation. Mechanical wrought-iron tower clock, 1698, later equipped with electrical winding.