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Dorpskerk

Nieuwer ter Aa, NL

Extremely important historical village church with tower. Particularly important for the English organ, and the series of stained glass windows. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Dorpskerk

De Bilt, NL

Dutch Reformed Church, 1657. Simple hall building. Tower with wooden crowning, 1839. Organ with main work and upper work, made in 1845 by the brothers HB and GW Lohman. Restored in 1980 by Flentrop Orgelbouw and extended with a free Pedal. Bell frame with clock by C. and J. Seest, 1783, diam. 70.5 cm. A wooden south pointer is placed on the south wall of the church.

Dorpskerk

Driewegen, NL

Dutch Reformed Church. Rectangular hall church, altered internally and externally in 1914, but mainly preserved in the form in which it was founded in 1678. Stately brick facade, decorated with natural stone carvings. Roof turret above the front facade. Internally sculpted pulpit, dated 1679. Entrance to the church grounds flanked by brick pillars with shield-bearing lions, coats of arms of Driewegen and Coudorpe. Bell tower with bell by Nicolaas Muller, 1734, diam. 70 cm. Mechanical tower clock, F. van de Kerkhof, 1906.

Dorpskerk

Nieuwegein, NL

Dutch Reformed Church. Built as village church of Vreeswijk. Oldest church building in present-day Nieuwegein. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Dorpskerk

Koudekerk aan den Rijn, NL

Historic village church with tower. Tower 1400. The renovation and restoration of the interior of the PKN (former Dutch Reformed) village church was completed in the spring of 2007. There is now finally real heating in the church. It is hoped to give the church a multi-functional destination. The restoration of the exterior will start soon. Nickname: Bridge Church.

Dorpskerk

Gouderak, NL

The church, built in 1658, is made of yellow IJssel brick and dated 1658 in the red brick facade. The two-pointed stars above it, also in red brick, refer to the coat of arms of Gouderak. On the west side, the masonry projects at the location of the tower. The roof turret has a wooden superstructure covered with slates and is crowned by a spire. The church was renovated in 1851. In front of the entrance is a portal from 1954 in an adapted style. The church has pointed arch windows on a dripstone. Between the windows are once cut buttresses with sloping covering. The interior of the church has a wooden barrel vault with wooden tie beams on corbel frames from 1851. They have profiled key pieces of a 17th-century type.

Dorpskerk

Rockanje, NL

Reformed church. Single-nave nave with narrower, rectangular closed choir (16th century). Oak tie beams with corbels and key pieces with pear bead profiles. Inventory: simple pulpit (19th century?), four gentlemen's pews (18th century). Organ made in 1884 by Gebr. van Oeckelen.

Dorpskerk

Goudriaan, NL

Dutch Reformed Church. Late Gothic village church with single-aisled nave and deep, three-sided closed choir. Heavy brick tower on the west side, decorated by series of narrow, blind niches and crowned by an eight-sided, constricted spire.

Dorpskerk

Goudswaard, NL

Dutch Reformed Church. Rectangular hall church with wooden barrel vault and tie beams, lit by round arch windows, 18th century. Simple tower with constricted spire, probably from 1721. The inventory includes: a pulpit in Louis XVI forms with a copper lectern and baptismal fence holder. A baptismal fence with a copper baptismal arch from the same period and a precentor's lectern. Four simple benches, two of which with a canopy, 18th century. Three copper crowns, 18th century. Some tombstones from the 16th and 17th centuries. Single manual organ, made in 1809 by PJ Geerkens. Restored in 1982 by Leeflang Orgelbouw. ​​Bell frame with bell by P. Waghevens, 1503, diam. 82 cm and a bell by an anonymous founder, 14th or 15th century, diam. 60.5 cm.

Dorpskerk

Ruurlo, NL

Dutch Reformed Church (before Reformation: St. Willibrord or Our Lady Church). Originally a 14th century church with a tower (15th c). The Gothic northern aisle was replaced in 1845 by a new aisle. The nave and choir are covered by cross-ribbed vaults, which in the nave and part of the choir start from wall pillars, connected by mural arches. Inventory: pulpit (17th) and clock by Arent vd Put in Deventer, 1600. On the northeast corner stone 1845. Organ with main work and lower positive, made in 1840 by JH Holtgräve, restored in 1983 by the Gebr. Reil.

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