Protestantse Kerk
Garrelsweer, NL
Neo-Romanesque church with a small tower.
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Garrelsweer, NL
Neo-Romanesque church with a small tower.
Midlum, NL
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.
Oosterhout, NL
The protestant Church of Oosterhout was commissioned in 1900. The church had an old steel bell tower (or tower), which was removed. After that it took some time until a new steel bell tower was built. This church is now listed as a Municipal Monument of the Netherlands.
Schettens, NL
Dutch Reformed Church, because of a burial vault a large tombstone by Mr. BG 1544. Two tombstones by P. Claes and one by Jacob Douwes 1639. Two-manual organ made in 1891 by Gebr. van Oeckelen. Mechanical tower clock.
Gorssel, NL
Extension with annex. Restoration and renovation after war damage, with old tower.
Doeveren, NL
Built in 1950. Facades and materials: post-war church made of hand-moulded bricks, situated on an artificial hill, with a small cemetery with graves, including JH Boll (1924).
Heesselt, NL
The single-nave neo-Gothic church built in 1887 with a three-sided choir closure under a saddle roof is built against the late 15th-century tower; the church and tower are strikingly situated near the Waaldijk. Built in brick and on a plinth, a four-bay long nave with buttresses cut between the windows and the sides of the choir with natural stone covering on the cutting and at the top; decorative brickwork molding under the gutter; wide lancet-shaped windows with tracery and in a frame of bright red brick and accents in natural stone; stained glass in a pointed diamond motif in green and white, along the edges of the windows strips in red and blue glass; on the roof covered with braised tiles three dormers covered with slates and provided with a piron; on the north side of the nave an extended entrance with double wooden door with fittings, set in a bright red brick frame; there also, the consistory room built against the tower under a hipped saddle roof with dormer; in the consistory room large windows with cross-bar division and slightly recessed round-arched fields above; the frame of the fields and the window styles in bright red stone; on the south side of the tower a mortuary house. In the interior a wooden barrel vault with tie rods and on cove, the ribs resting on consoles with decorative carvings; hexagonal pulpit and rear bulkhead with Gothic decorations from 1864, organ balcony on three simple wooden columns; wainscoting, gentlemen's pews and general pew plan made of wood; two late 19th-century psalm and hymn boards; two twelve-arm copper crowns from the construction period with tronies on the inside. At the entrance to the church two memorial stones from 1849 and 1887. Intact single-manual organ, made in 1857 by H. Knipscheer from Amsterdam. The neo-Gothic village church, built in 1887, is of cultural and architectural-historical value due to its location and the intactness of its interior and exterior, so that protection as a national monument is justified.
Ooltgensplaat, NL
Simple hall church from 1847 with a plastered tower, including a classicist portal with pilasters; triglyph list and pediment. The inventory includes a pulpit with a simple bowl, an excellent carved rear bulkhead, a sounding board, stairs and enclosure, all in Louis XIV style; pulpit lectern, candle arm, baptismal font holder and precentor's lectern, from the early 18th century. Furthermore, there are three chandeliers from the late 17th century. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.
Steggerda, NL
Renovated in 1903
Dalerpeel, NL
Modern church. Inaugurated on July 4, 1965. Built to replace a Chapel of the Reformed Evangelisation Association Dalerpeel/Nieuwe Krim, from 1920.
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