Monuments in Noord-Holland

R. Stenvert en C. Kolman (2006)

Gepubliceerd op 30-03-2018

The Herv church in Ransdorp

betekenis & definitie

(Dorpsweg 57) is a hall church with a large tower of three sections without rush hour. The tower, executed with angled buttresses, was erected around 1525 (between 1502 and 1549) according to plans by Jan Poyt, to whom one also ascribes the tower of Loenen (U).

This richly detailed late Gothic tower has a circulating balustrade on the transition from the second to the third articulation. It did not come to a final balustrade with a spire. In this in 1937 by H.P. Messer restored tower hangs a clock (1620) cast by Henricus Meurs. The accompanying church collapsed in the 17th century and the successor from 1719-'20 only left the wall work with the slurs floating underneath. Improved in 1833 and in 1936 by J.C. Hoogendorp's largely renovated church contains a late-17th-century pulpit.