Onze Lieve Vrouw Presentatie

Beautiful large neo-Gothic church with high tower of 75 m - the highest still existing church tower from the oeuvre of architect Caspar Franssen (1860-1932). Main work of this architect. "Cathedral of the Peel".

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Onze Lieve Vrouw Presentatie

Important modern church with tower. Also known as an outside church, pilgrimage church. On the site of the predecessor from 1843 that was destroyed in 1944 during the Second World War. After the war, an emergency church on the Kloosterlaan was used until the construction of this church in 1962. Behind the church is the procession park . This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Protestantse Kerk

The church is a hall building with three-sided closure, four bays deep, under a saddle roof. The consistory room has a hipped roof. Both roofs are covered with natural stone slates in a mesh covering. On the square a symmetrical pilaster facade with a projecting portal with a pediment and pinnacle. The stepped gable has a climbing arch frieze, clock face with clockwork, horizontal bands and a plastered plinth. Furthermore, the facade is crowned by a square bell tower with a tower roof and weather vane. The tower carries a carillon of eighteen bells. The rising masonry consists of red machine-made bricks laid in cross bond. The nave has lisene-like pilasters. In the arch drum above the large window of the front facade decorative brickwork. Cement spring and keystones in pointed arch and arch frieze. The wall openings of the church are provided with cast iron Gothic pointed arch windows with diamond-shaped bars. In the transom of the portal and in the round window of the rear facade a geometric rod division. The interior has a stuccoed cross-ribbed vault with iron tie rods. In the outer wall cast iron wall anchors. In the church an octagonal oak pulpit from 1740 with copper lectern, baptismal font and wooden sounding board with golden halo, made by the carpenter Godefridus Scheepers from Heeze.