St.-Johannes de Doperkerk

The Roman Catholic Parish Church of St. John the Baptist is a three-aisled neoclassical church, made of brick with round arch windows, buttresses and a simple tower of three sections with a short spire. It was built in 1852 by P. Soffers. Internally Tuscan columns, depressed arches, a stuccoed wooden barrel vault over the nave and stuccoed wooden cross-rib vaults over the side aisles. The choir is internally divided by pilasters with composite capitals. The inventory includes two side altars, a pulpit, and prayer chairs in neo-baroque forms. High altar and neo-renaissance style. Originally a single-manual organ, made in 1860 by the Gebr. Van der Aa. Extended in 1954 and equipped with electro-pneumatic action. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

About this building

.

Other nearby buildings

Sint Jansbasiliek

Gothic cruciform church from the second half of the 15th century, consisting of a seven-bay deep, three-sided closed choir with chapels along the two western bays, and an unfinished tower from 1519-1527. In 1880-1882 expanded by P. Cuypers and J. van Langelaar to a five-aisled church. In the church columns of brick with natural stone layers, cross-ribbed vaults in the choir and its side chapels, as well as in the sacristy. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Hervormde Kerk

Dutch Reformed Church. Since changes after destruction by the French in 1672 consisting of a three-sided closed choir of two bays, from the 15th century, two low, 15th century, shortened in the 19th century, transepts, a 15th century nave of five bays, enlarged around 1500 with a north aisle and a built-in 14th century tower with buttresses on the west side, an arched frieze under the spire and a vault over the lower space. Internal columns with molding capitals and wooden barrel vaults. Restoration completed in 1963. Oak pulpit, baptismal fence and associated copper work from 1680, replaced. 17th and 18th century tombstones. Mechanical wrought iron tower clock by Juriaan van Zutphen, 1695, electric winding.

Vredeskerk

The Reformed Church on the Rulstraat was built in 1810-1811. The construction was made possible by financial support from King Louis Napoleon as compensation for the return of the Sint Janskerk to the Roman Catholics. The church was built in the neoclassical style. The carved Renaissance pulpit and the three copper chandeliers (the oldest dates from 1609!) come from the Sint Jan. The church was restored from 1961 to 1963. Since the early 1990s, the church has been called 'Vredeskerk'. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.