Sint Lambertuskerk

English translation

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Description

St. Lambertus Church; basilica church built in 1890 to the design of the Roermond architect C. Franssen. The church building, erected against the 15th-century tower (already protected), is constructed in strict Gothic brick building and consists of a three-aisled nave of 4 bays and a transept, opening to the presbytery choir of one bay and with five-sided choir ambulatory; on either side of the tower a chapel, adjoining the side aisles; against the south side of the presbytery choir a children's chapel built around 1930; nave and transept under equally high gabled roofs with a small angel bell turret at the crossing, choir under gabled roof with shields, side aisles under leasehold roof and chapels under tent roofs, all covered with slate; per side aisle bay two coupled pointed arch windows; per transept and nave bay three coupled pointed arch windows, of which the central one is higher than the outer ones; per choir bay one high pointed arch window; all bays separated from each other by means of buttresses with sandstone capping plates; in the end gables of the transept arms four coupled pointed arch windows above which a rose window, the whole enclosed by a pointed arch niche, and in the gable tops five pointed arch niches with an oculus above. Interior: stone-built cross-rib vaults, the ribs of which rest on small columns with capitals placed against the bundle pillars of the pointed arch arcades and those of the crossing; between the intermediate arches and the clerestory a blind triforium of six pointed arch niches per bay; walls whitewashed with wainscoting of painted tapestries and columns, moulding and vault ribs in ashlar with black and yellow bands on the colonettes; black marble floor in nave and transept; floor of baked tiles with four animal figures at the corners in the presbytery choir. Benches, high altar, Mary altar, pulpit (J. Thissen, Roermond, 1903), confessionals (J. Thissen), wooden sculptures (M. van Bokhoven and Jonkers, 's-Hertogenbosch and J. Thissen) and Stations of the Cross (H. van Geld) all executed in neo-Gothic style; in the presbytery choir stained glass windows by Frans Nicolas, dating from 1895 and depicting the seven sacraments; St. Lambertus sculpture by Pieter Verhoeven (Uden, ca 1770). Originally a single-manual organ, made in 1855 by F.C. Smits. After a major rebuild around 1900, the organ was restored in 1987, provided with a new organ case and expanded with a new Swell Organ.