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Neo-Romanesque church with a small tower.

Reformed Church with tower on churchyard. In construction still 13th century brick church building with tower, later bricked up. In the churchyard a number of 17th and 18th century gravestones. Single manual organ made in 1811 by L. van Dam. Bell tower with chiming of two bells, one of which by anonymous founder from the 15th century?, diam. 67 cm. and one by Reinerus, 1476, diam. 81 cm. Mechanical wrought iron tower clock, 17th century, has been decommissioned. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

NH Church, built in 1809 in a mixed classical-neo-Gothic style after a design by L. van Heijst; brick hall church with 3/8 closure and an open octagonal tower on the roof. Front facade with pilasters and pediments. Pointed arch windows. Interior: stucco. Oak pulpit from around 1775, brass lectern and baptismal font holder from the same period. An 18th century cabinet organ, which had been here since 1809, has long since disappeared. The current organ was delivered in 1952 by the Vreeken company (Bodegraven).

Dutch Reformed Church. A simple hall church from 1810, renovated in 1840. The west facade is divided by four blocked pilasters and crowned by an octagonal open bell tower. Bell frame with clock by J. Swijs, 1728, diam. 47 cm. Mechanical tower clock B. Eijsbouts, Asten, 1911.

In 1686 probably built on older foundations five-sided closed church building. In the church pulpit with twisted columns along the tub; coat rack board, stairs and sounding board, all from 1666. A covered and a non-canopied lord's pew with carved friezes and attachments, both around 1666. All pews with knobs, on the pulpit side remains of baptismal fence with spindle frieze. Many gravestones 17th-19th century. Freestanding 13th century tower with brick spire rising above gables with climbing arch friezes. Mechanical tower clock, "Concordia", WJ Koek, Midwolda. Mechanical wrought iron tower clock 1598, in 1702 by R. Symons provided with a pendulum mechanism. Restored in 1908. Decommissioned. Organ made in 1868 by R. Meijer.

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.

Five-sided closed church with built-in tower, provided with constricted spire. The church was built in 1658 and restored in 1838. Internally a pressed barrel vault. Pulpit, baptismal fence and pews from the 17th century. Single manual organ from 1907, made by the Gebr. Spanjaard (Alkmaar).

Single-nave church with five-sided closure, covered internally by a wooden barrel vault, rebuilt in 1680 on the site of a cruciform Gothic church, restored in 1966/67. Baptismal font XV; pulpit XVIIb/c. Baptismal gate XVII; covered oak pew with three cartouches, 1634; Ten Commandments board 1687; old oak door in the entrance to the organ; two wooden lions on the organ gallery; copper baptismal arch and candle arm XVII B, three large sixteen-armed crowns XVIIb/c, candlestick arm. Organ with main work and upper work made in 1878 by L. van Dam and Sons.

This church is listed as a Municipal Monument of the Netherlands.

Interesting neo-church with tower, built 1894-1895, replacing a burnt down church. (See also below the interesting description by the SKKN, in which however no further description of the important Bakker and Timmenga organ is given).