Heilige Servatius
Schijndel, NL
Roman Catholic Church of St. Servatius. Church building, consisting of a Gothic tower completed in 1525 and a church built in 1839-1840 in Waterstaat style (baroque classicism). The brick tower is a flat rising structure, has an extended octagonal staircase tower on the southeast corner and has two sections separated by a natural stone list, of which the lower one is completely flat and the upper one has two pointed arch niches on each side, in each of which an echo hole is located in the upper part. Surrounding arch frieze under the spire. from four to eight sides constricted steep spire, crowned by a ball. Restored in 1955. Three-sided closed basilica church, built in Waterstaat style and extended in neo-Gothic; in the nave walls still partly medieval church. Three-sided closed choir. Inventory: pulpit with group of statues (John the Baptist preaching) partly Waterstaat style, partly neo-Gothic. Organ with Main Work, Upper Work, Positive and free Pedal, made in 1852 by FC Smits. Tombstone of the naval hero Joan van Amstel (who took part in many naval battles under De Ruyter and Tromp, died in 1669) with epitaph of Vondel. In the crossing tower bell of anonymous founder, 1686, diam. 55 cm.