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Three-aisled neo-Gothic cruciform church with tower on the left side of the front. Octagonal baptistery on the right side of the front. Overhanging roofs all around. Angelus tower on the crossing. The transepts are not straight-closed but have a five-sided closure. Six-sided closed chancel. Brick interior. Organ from 1863 by G. Elberink, built for the predecessor of this church, converted in 1936 by B. Pels & Zoon (Alkmaar).

Single-nave (neo)romanesque church with tower. This is the southernmost church in the Netherlands. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

The Sint Pancratius Church was designed by architect JHH van Groenendael and built in 1924. The style is sober Neo-Gothic.

Freestanding church building, diagonally placed on a square plot, which allowed the tower to be situated on the corner of the Wassenaarseweg and the Neuhuyskade and the nave to taper in plan, while the side aisles end approximately halfway along the nave. The church building was built in 1919-1921 to a design by AJ Kropholler in the traditionalist style characteristic of this architect. The sacristy is located on the south side of the chancel, on the corner of the Dreibholtzstraat and the Paschalispad. The former sexton's house, Dreibholtzstraat l, is located on the north side of the chancel. Description. Church building with a partly basilica nave, the very wide central nave of which is accompanied by narrow side aisles over approximately half its length. The church has heavily constructed buttresses, pointed arch windows placed in groups of three per bay and a high, visible canopy over the central nave. The apse with buttresses is illuminated by deep pointed arch windows with wide reveals. The triumphal arch between the nave and the choir is externally emphasized by a wide buttress wall with a brick bell tower on the north side and a high chimney with a wind hood on the south side. The sober tower shows two slender, pointed arch sound holes in each facade surface, above which the clock faces are placed. The transept is surrounded by an iron fence and the simple, four-sided spire has dormer windows at the base and is crowned by a wrought iron, decorated cross. The main portal has been extended in front of the tower, covered by a saddle roof that adjoins a pointed gable with braiding and a crowning natural stone cross. In the arch field of the portal there is a sculpted relief depicting a pelican feeding her young with her blood, as a symbol of Christ. This relief was made by the sculptor Lambertus Zijl. On either side of the tower are three-sided chapels with tent roofs: on the north side the baptismal chapel, on the south side the chapel of Our Lady of the Fortress. The floors of these chapels, which are lit by small pointed arch windows, are part of the side rooms of the choir. Side portals are located on the west facades of the aisles. There is also a portal in the connecting section between the former sexton's house on Dreibholtzstraat and the church. The sacristy on the south side of the choir is a rectangular brick building under a high saddle roof between pointed gables, the southern of which is flanked by a chimney. The rectangular windows, fitted with latticework, have lintels with natural stone corner blocks. The former sexton's house, Dreibholtzstraat 1, is an elongated brick building with a saddleback roof between gables with wickerwork, on an irregular plan, with a storey and an extended ground floor on the west side, above which is a terrace with a brick parapet. Church, tower,The sacristy and former sexton's house are mainly made of brick. Natural stone is used for structurally important components, such as corner blocks, lintels, plinths, buttress covers, pillars and consoles. The roofs and the spire have a slate covering. The heavy wooden doors are all made with wrought iron hinges. The interior of the church, treated as fair-work, has round, natural stone pillars with cube capitals and imposts, from which the rectangular, brick arches rise, which separate the aisles from the central nave. The high, visible canopy is made of wood, the apsidal cap and the vaulting of the aisles are made of brick. The chancel is separated from the church space by a wide, pointed triumphal arch; behind it a narrower arch opens to the apse, which is surrounded by a shallow ambulatory opened with pointed arches on pillars. On either side of the apse are pointed arch niches cut out in the wall plane, in which the side altars are placed. The west wall of the nave is opened up by three pointed arches to the choir and two side rooms. In front of the middle arch is an extended balcony with a brick parapet on natural stone, connected by arches, corbelling. The lower zone of the west wall has the door to the tower portal in the middle and on either side the entrances to the chapels next to the tower, all with pointed arches on natural stone attachments. The sacristy has a coupled arched scaffolding on natural stone pillars on the church side and it is covered by a beam ceiling. The inventory of the church, which largely dates from the construction period or shortly thereafter, includes the following components: above the pillars of the nave a series of six statues of saints carved in French limestone by the sculptors Jac. and Johanna Sprenkels; in the side chapels of the aisles statues of the Sacred Heart and Anthony of Padua, made by Jac. Sprenkels; in the northern aisle, a statue of Theresia of Lisieux carved in onyx, by Jac. and Johanna Sprenkels; marble high altar under a bronze ciborium resting on marble columns; tabernacle on the high altar with copper-driven door covering and crown, made by Jan Eloy and Leo Brom; the left side altar, dedicated to Mary, and the right side altar, dedicated to St. Joseph, both with marble mensae and retables and relief representations in copper and bronze by JE and L. Brom; marble communion bench with copper-driven reliefs and fences by JE and L. Brom; marble pulpit, supported by stylized lion figures, with canopy and bronze eagle lectern by JE and L. Brom; marble baptismal font with bronze lid and tap, by JE and L. Brom; stations of the cross in bronze relief by Leo Brom; wall arms, on which hang a sanctuary lamp and consecration bell, on the chancel, made in bronze by JE and L.Brom; wrought iron railings for the side chapels and the adjoining rooms of the chancel, as well as the gilded bronze candelabras and candlesticks on the chancel and high altar, all by JE and L. Brom; the bluestone altars in the chapels of the Sacred Heart and Anthony, designed by Dom Paul Bellot; the natural stone Paschal altar with bronze retable at the end of the southern aisle. The architect of the church, AJ Kropholler, designed the wooden benches and chairs, the wrought iron chandeliers, the railings for the Baptismal Chapel and the chapel of Our Lady of the Fortress, as well as the inventory of the sacristy, including the credence table and the vestment cabinet. The organ, mounted against the tower wall above the central pointed arch and resting on wooden corbels with corbels, dates from shortly after the construction of the church. The organ and organ case are of no value from the point of view of monument conservation.

Sober modern church without a tower.

The Pastoor van Arskerk is a modern Roman Catholic church on the Aaltje Noordewierstraat in the Loosduinen district of The Hague. The church is located in a park in the Waldeck district. The design is influenced by structuralism. The church is dedicated to the French Roman Catholic saint John Mary Vianney who was pastor in Ars near Lyon. The labyrinthine building, with its innovative floor plan and spatial layout, influenced (Dutch) church building in the second half of the twentieth century.

Modern church without tower. On site emergency church . Former Roman Catholic St. Peter's Church. Out of use. Sold to the Municipality of De Schaapskooi in 2019.

Roman Catholic Church from 1840-'41, consisting of a single-aisled nave, a west tower, a narrower, round-enclosed choir with a sacristy in the axis. Mechanical wrought-iron tower clock, 18th century, later equipped with electric winding.

Roman Catholic St. Paulus Church in Helmond-Noord, one of the youngest parishes in Helmond. Consecrated in 1970. Sober modern emergency church without a tower. Replaced an earlier emergency church. Also used by Polish Catholics.

Modern church with small tower..