Het Baken

Modern church without a tower in the Emmerhout district, with the former address De Dilgt 400.

In 1906, the neo-Gothic Gerardus Majella church, designed by architect H. Kroes, was put into use. It was the first parish church in the Netherlands to be dedicated to this saint. The church consisted of a five-sided closed vaulted chancel and a two-bay long nave, with a wooden ceiling. On the roof was a roof turret with an eight-sided spire. The church soon proved to be too small.

Non-oriented, simple basilica church without tower, in traditionalist forms, influenced by Romanesque. Replaced an earlier emergency church. Bell present in extension on the northwest side, to the right of the chancel. Rectory and ancillary rooms to the south of the church. The interior is simple but atmospheric. Wooden roof, supported by wooden trusses resting against stone pillars. Chancel vaulted in stone.