Protestantse Kerk
Lisse, NL
Dutch Reformed Church. Tower exterior tuff stone circa 15th century. Single-nave nave and choir (15th century).
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Lisse, NL
Dutch Reformed Church. Tower exterior tuff stone circa 15th century. Single-nave nave and choir (15th century).
Grijpskerk, NL
Built as a Reformed Church. Iconic interbellum church with tower. Hall church with high, side-standing tower in a light expressionist style.
Ryptsjerk, NL
Reformed Church and tower, situated on a churchyard. Simple church building from 1757 with built-in west tower. In the church 17th century pulpit, baptismal fence and four pews, one 17th century and three 18th century gravestones. Two-manual organ made in 1891 by Bakker and Timmenga. In the roof turret hangs a clock by F. Haetiser, 1546, diameter 101 cm. Mechanical tower clock G. Delouche, Paris.
Sint-Michielsgestel, NL
Originally a reformed church. Three-sided closed hall church with roof turret, lesenes and pointed arch windows, from 1801. Internal stucco vault.
Kaag, NL
Dutch Reformed Church from 1873. The inventory includes: a copper lectern on the pulpit and a precentor's lectern; a copper baptismal font holder and two copper candle holders, all dating from the 18th century.
Nieuwpoort, NL
Dutch Reformed Church. Three-aisled PSEUDOBASILIC (16th century) with five-sided closed choir and narrow ambulatory. The three naves and the ambulatory under a high roof. Major renovations in 1774, when, among other things, the tower was demolished and replaced by a new west facade, above which an open dome tower. The church was restored in 1842-1843. Slender columns inside; a wooden barrel vault with tie beams over the tall central nave and half barrel vaults over the side aisles and ambulatory. Good inventory: pulpit in Lod. XVI-like forms (1842); baptismal fence (17th century B) with precentor's lectern (18th century A); beautifully carved lord's pew (1652); three copper crowns (18th century?); grave board (1679); several tombstones (17th-18th century). Bell tower with clock by H. Meurs, 1605, diam. 67.3 cm.
Hoogwoud, NL
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.
Saaksum, NL
Reformed Church and tower on spacious churchyard. Small church rebuilt in 1850 in a characteristic style for that period with plaster window frames and plastered fields above. Brick saddle roof tower with low extended staircase tower; tower vault on sandstone corbels. Epitaph from 1550 in the tower portal. 17th century pulpit tub carved into the church; younger rear bulkhead and sounding board. An 18th century gravestone and a bell from 1629 in the tower. Organ from 1889, wind chest by the Gebr. Franssen, partly older pipework.
Biervliet, NL
In 1659, construction of this church began. The Middelburg stained glass artist Cornelis Van Barlaar made three windows that were placed in the east facade (1660-1661). The oak wall paneling next to the pulpit (priest's chancel) is from the previous medieval church, as is the separation between the chairs and the garden. The copper chandelier is a gift from the local preacher Lucas Schortinghuis, late 18th century. During the liberation in 1944, the tower was destroyed. Reconstruction in a modified form took place in 1947.
Cuijk, NL
So-called Lodewijkskerkje, one of the dozens built in North Brabant at the beginning of the 19th century, after the historic churches in various places had to be "returned" to the Roman Catholic Church by the Reformed Church.
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