Oude kerk
Ede, NL
Reformed church. Tall, late Gothic cruciform church, built in the course of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century after a Romanesque predecessor had burned down in 1420. The nave has a side aisle on the south side only; only the arches of the north were built. Deep, 5/8 closed choir with a sacristy on the south side. Against the east wall of the north transept a staircase tower. Internally over the choir and transept net vaults on colonettes. The nave and side aisle have cross-rib vaults, which however date from 1643. The church was restored after a fire in 1635; a complete restoration was started in 1964. The inventory includes: an oak pulpit and a baptismal fence from 1674, four copper crowns from 1791, several tombstones from the 17th and 18th centuries. Organ with two manuals, built in 1877 by L. van Dam & Zonen (Leeuwarden) for the Reformed Church of Nieuwe Niedorp . In 1967 modified by the firm B. Pels & Zoon (Alkmaar), provided with a free pedal and placed in Ede. The tower is a large building, clad with secondary processed tuff stone, with three sections, of which the upper two have two slender pointed arch niches with traceries in each facade surface. In the 17th century (VL) or in 1765 (date in corbel under the spire) the tower obtained a remarkable closure, consisting of an arched frieze, above which a series of pointed arch niches with fork traceries and, above the water list, a parapet with blind round arch niches. Mechanical tower clock, has been decommissioned.