Protestantse Kerk
Rottum, NL
The building has a two-sided closed hipped roof, covered with a black glazed Frisian corrugated tile, against a straight front facade; under the gutter (not original) a frieze of decorative brickwork in red, yellow and lime sand brick. The rear facade is crowned by an octagonal piron with plume. The two side facades (north and south), which are divided into four by brick lesenes, each have four pointed arch windows with cast iron tracery under a pointed arch of dark brick. The front facade (west) with a climbing frieze of red, yellow and dark brick is flanked on both corners by pilasters with recessed surfaces of lime sand brick and is crowned by a roof turret. The roof turret has a plastered lantern with pointed arch-shaped sound holes and a constricted spire covered with slates; under the roof turret a (non-original) clock face with: anno 1958. In the middle of the front facade a double panel door with a brick stoop (two steps) under a pointed arch of red and yellow brick surrounded by dark stone; in the arch drum filled with red brick a pointed arch-shaped facade stone with the text: built in 1889, churchwardens DB Smedema, OR Clevering, WO Wolthuis. To the left of the door two bricks with the initials WW and OC and to the right of the door two with Ds. E. and DS. On either side of the entrance a pointed arch window with cast iron tracery under a pointed arch of red brick surrounded by a projecting pointed arch of dark stone with blocks; the sills of dark brick also have blocks. Above the entrance a cast iron rose window with a roll layer of red, yellow and lime sandstone.