St Vitus Church
The St. Vitus Church is a church from the thirteenth century. In the tower there is a clock from 1477, and in the church you can see a pulpit from the seventeenth century. There are beautifully carved gravestones in the floor.
About this building
Feinsum (Dutch: Finkum) probably originated around a summer residence for the monks of the Mariengaarde monastery in Hallum. The church stands on a mound from the beginning of the era. The church building is made of red and yellow brick. The choir was replaced in around 1500 by a choir in Gothic style that received a straight closure in the seventeenth century. Halfway down the north side was an annex that was later removed. A heavily profiled circular arch is reminiscent of this. Two small Romanesque windows can be seen in the north wall. The choir has a small pointed Gothic window on this side. The entrance also dates from the Gothic period, as the pointed arch is characteristic of the Gothic style. On the south side there are two lancet windows in the choir and a wider pointed arch window with a brick fork tracing in the wall. Furthermore, there are two pointed arch windows that were added more recently, and a late gothic entrance made from bricks and crowned with three niches in recesses. The slender, unadorned saddle roofs date back to the second half of the thirteenth century. The paired reverb holes are in circular arcs. The organ was built in 1913 by Bakker & Timmenga from Leeuwarden. Finkum has a communal village house that is shared with the neighboring village of Hijum. Yet some Finkumers find it cozier to sing along in the choir that practices irregularly in their 'own' church. Furthermore, there are mourning and wedding services, and the church can be rented for other activities.
