The Gertrudis church in the Frisian town of Workum is a late Gothic brick church, founded in 1480 and resumed in 1523. The free-standing church tower was built after 1523 but remained unfinished. However, in 1613, an onion dome was applied to the second section of the tower.
The church stands on the site of a medieval church that was probably built around 1300. The spire is made of wood. Under the wooden floor are four gravestones of the pastors from the time before the reformation.
Church building located behind the IJsselmeerdijk, built in 1632 on the foundations of a late 16th-century predecessor and consisting of a two-aisled hall church until 1892. In 1658 the church was expanded with a south aisle, which was demolished again in 1892. Since then it has been a single-aisled building again.
Dutch Reformed Church. Church building situated on a moated churchyard consisting of a brick nave with a younger upright saddle roof tower. Bell tower with bell by Hermanus from 1402. Its striking tone is a somewhat too high F 1, its diameter will therefore be around 115 cm. Mechanical tower clock J. Wielinga, Franeker, 1958. In the attic of the church is the wooden sundial that used to be attached to the church.
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