Grote of Sint Andreaskerk

The Dutch. Rev. Church before the Reformation dedicated to H.H. Andreas and Catherine is a three-aisled basilica in the late Lower Rhine Gothic style. The nave, built around the middle of the 15th century, has pillars and rib vaults. The choir, originally XVa but renovated and enlarged around 1500 (consecration 1504), is single-aisled, has a three-sided closure and has a net vault. On either side of the choir, chapels are separated from the church space by slender columns: the northern one with cross-rib vaults and the larger southern one with three-sided closure and a net vault. Against the southern side of the choir is a stair tower (1635). The church was restored in 1895-'96 by P.J.H. and Jos. Th. Cuypers. The church has: a Romanesque sandstone baptismal font (XII), a pulpit from 1635 and a choir screen with Ionian pilasters and carved balusters from 1645. On the north wall of the nave an organ (1614) with painted shutters (1677) and carved parapet. This is a one-manual organ with partly 16th century pipework. Two copper candle crowns from 1691. Several tombstones, including late Gothic for Michael Ernst van Bamberch, drost of Hattem with a sculpted knight figure (1522) in the southern chapel dedicated to St. Anna. Wall and vault paintings. In the vaults of the northern side chapel representations of the annuciation and the birth with accompanying decorative motifs, towards the middle of the 15th century. The net vault of the high choir has paintings with coats of arms and praise, from the early 16th century and greatly improved during the restoration. On the net vault of the south side chapel praise work, figures of saints and in the apse Christ as the Man of Sorrows with angels holding the instruments of suffering, early 16th century. In this chapel there are also four paintings on the southern wall, seriously damaged and faded, including the "Feast of Job".