Monuments in Noord-Holland

R. Stenvert en C. Kolman (2006)

Gepubliceerd op 26-03-2018

The Herv church in Oosterblokker

betekenis & definitie

(Oosterblokker 98), originally dedicated to St. Pancratius, is an elevated single-aisled cross-church with five-sided closed choir and a tower of three sections with constricted needle spire. Against a (disappeared) 14th-century church, around 1450, the current tower with narrow pointed arches and closing round arches arose. In the tower hangs a clock cast by Hendrick Wegewaert (1601). The late Gothic ship was established in the second half of the 15th century, followed in the early 16th century by a transept and choir.

The interior is covered by wooden barrel vaults, with shavings on the corners of the celebration with statues of the four Evangelists. The church floor contains some 12th-century tombstones of red Bremer sandstone. The inventory includes a baptismal garden with copper baptismal arch (1645), a richly carved pulpit with the arms of Holland, Orange, Blokker, West Friesland and Drechterland (1661), and an organ built by E. Leichel (late 19th century).