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Nice modern church with bell tower. Built as Dutch Reformed Church.

Church in neo-Gothic style with a tower from the 15th century.

Dutch Reformed Church. Founded in 1812, rebuilt in 1857. Simple brick building, in plan an elongated back, with flat buttresses, pointed arch windows and roof turret. 17th century oak pulpit, bell cast in 1626, originating from the castle in Helmond.

In the years 1881-1884 the firm Ibach built an organ for the Reformed Church in Rhenoy. The instrument was built in the church by Adrianus van Ingen. Upon completion the Gemshorn 8' and the Trumpet of the Main Work were reserved. These were never installed again. In 1950 the firm De Koff & Zn. carried out a revision. They placed the third choir of the Sesquialter as an independent register on the reserved slide of the Trumpet 8'. The firm SF Blank restored the organ in 1990. The Sesquialter was restored. The slide of the Trumpet remained unoccupied.

The church was originally dedicated to Saint Nicholas. Excavations have shown that there was a church before this church, probably more than one, because in addition to monastery bricks, a tufa stone called âlde Friezen was also found in the churchyard. These stones were used in church construction around 1100. There was a fire in the church in January 1970. An overheated stove in the middle of the church caused the roof to catch fire. This resulted in a large hole in the roof. The damage was then repaired using panelling and carpeting. This disrupted the acoustics in the church. During the extensive renovation of 2006/2007, some things were restored. The church is used by the Protestant Community of Tjerkgaast, Idskenhuizen and Sint Nicolaasga.

The building has a two-sided closed hipped roof, covered with a black glazed Frisian corrugated tile, against a straight front facade; under the gutter (not original) a frieze of decorative brickwork in red, yellow and lime sand brick. The rear facade is crowned by an octagonal piron with plume. The two side facades (north and south), which are divided into four by brick lesenes, each have four pointed arch windows with cast iron tracery under a pointed arch of dark brick. The front facade (west) with a climbing frieze of red, yellow and dark brick is flanked on both corners by pilasters with recessed surfaces of lime sand brick and is crowned by a roof turret. The roof turret has a plastered lantern with pointed arch-shaped sound holes and a constricted spire covered with slates; under the roof turret a (non-original) clock face with: anno 1958. In the middle of the front facade a double panel door with a brick stoop (two steps) under a pointed arch of red and yellow brick surrounded by dark stone; in the arch drum filled with red brick a pointed arch-shaped facade stone with the text: built in 1889, churchwardens DB Smedema, OR Clevering, WO Wolthuis. To the left of the door two bricks with the initials WW and OC and to the right of the door two with Ds. E. and DS. On either side of the entrance a pointed arch window with cast iron tracery under a pointed arch of red brick surrounded by a projecting pointed arch of dark stone with blocks; the sills of dark brick also have blocks. Above the entrance a cast iron rose window with a roll layer of red, yellow and lime sandstone.

Hall church from around 1825 with pointed arch windows and an octagonal wooden bell tower. It has a neo-classical entrance. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Reformed church with front tower and attached consistory, built in 1942 to replace its predecessor that was destroyed by war.

Dutch Reformed Church. Simple Gothic church from 1794 with a bell spire above the west facade from 1869. Internal oak pulpit (recently painted pastel) with sounding board. Bell tower with bell by N. Rogier, 1629, diam. 110.5 cm. Mechanical wrought iron tower clock, ca. 1870. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

The tower dates from 1900. In the church there is a pulpit from 1760, originating from the old church. On 1 January 2015 a large fire raged in this church. After this fire, in consultation with the RCE, among others, the church was "rebuilt". This reconstruction actually involved an almost completely new construction .