Kerk, Dorpsstraat 119

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Church building from 1717 situated just outside the village centre with tower, of which the lower part dates from 1841 and the upper part from 1925. The interior contains some valuable 17th-century interior components, a bell frame with bell from 1560, a mechanical clock from the early 20th century and some 17th-century gravestones. The 17th- and 18th-century benches were replaced during a restoration around 1960 by chairs with rush seating. The organ from 1921 and the organ case from around the same time fall outside the protection of the state due to insufficient monumental value. The church is heavily pollarded at the public roadside; on the rear side the building borders the esker. An oak-lined avenue leads to the church and the new cemetery to the south-east of it. On the old churchyard around the church, the so-called Bishop's churchyard, some mainly 18th- and 19th-century natural stone and wooden grave markers still stand and lie.

Description

Simple straight-walled hall church under a three-sided hipped roof covered with muted blue tiles; brass weathervane with date 1913; iron tie anchors and ornamental brickwork along the western gable. The nave with 19th-century (1876) block rendering and generous affront, is regularly articulated by round-arch windows with wooden tracery. The newer unrendered tower under constricted slate-covered needle spire with cock consists of two parts. The lower part dates from 1841 and has round-arch windows and a nicely detailed, presumably still 18th-century entrance section consisting of double panel doors set in a sandstone frame of fluted Ionic columns on bases; spandrel filling with inscription referring to the construction in 1841; above it a memorial stone referring to the heightening of the tower in 1925; iron tie anchors. In the upper section from 1925 enlivened with ornamental brickwork, sound holes, blind niches and two clock faces.

In the INTERIOR covered by a wooden barrel vault with rosettes, the following are of particular importance: - the oak wooden pulpit with bowl from 1560 with arched panels and cherub heads in the spandrels between fluted Corinthian columns (inscription: Doccumanus abbas me fieri fecit Ao 1560) and nicely carved canopy from 1775; the associated stair has been replaced by a modern one; - the 17th-century oak communion table; - some hardstone gravestones, the oldest of which dates from 1632; - in the tower a mechanical clock with electrical winding from the first quarter of the 20th century and the bell frame with bell by C. Fremy from 1679 with rim decoration, inscription and some loose ornaments.

Valuation

Early 18th-century church building (1717) with later tower (1841; 1925), bell frame with bell (1560), mechanical clock (XXa) and interior components and gravestones of general importance because of: - age and building history; - the sober, yet careful design; - the valuable interior components; - the striking pollarded location at the roadside and esker.