Grote Kerk (monster)
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The Grote Kerk ( Great Church ) is a late Gothic Evangelical Reformed parish church in Monster ( South Holland Province ) in the Netherlands. The Reformed parish belongs to the Protestant Church in the Netherlands and the church building is Rijksmonument under number 30044.
history
The church, which was consecrated to the Breton Saint Machutus until the Reformation was introduced , was one of the oldest parish churches in the region. The parishes of The Hague and 's-Gravenzande were demarcated from their parish . Until 1276 the church belonged to the Paulus Abbey in Utrecht and then came to the Middelburg Abbey .
The Grote Kerk goes back to a chapel built in the 11th century. This was extended in the first half of the 13th century to a single-nave church on a cross-shaped floor plan with a west tower made of tuff stone in front of it. At the end of the 14th century, this church was replaced by a larger three-aisled Gothic hall church with a five-sided closed choir. The south aisle is narrower than the north. Both side aisles adjoin three-sided closed side choirs in the east. The three choirs are each the same width, the main choir in the middle is raised. Between 1400 and 1450 the old tower was replaced by today's monumental late Gothic tower. In 1901 the church and tower burned down, but in 1906 they were restored to their old form.
literature
- Monuments in Nederland. Zuid-Holland , 2004, p. 357.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 19 ″ N , 4 ° 10 ′ 19 ″ E