Monuments in Noord-Holland

R. Stenvert en C. Kolman (2006)

Gepubliceerd op 30-03-2018

The Herv church in Spanbroek

betekenis & definitie

(Spanbroekerweg 37), originally dedicated to St. Boniface, is a single-nave church with a five-sided closed choir and a tower of three sections with balustrade and constricted striker. The east side of the tower substructure dates back to the first half of the 15th century. In the third quarter of that century the current late Gothic church arose. The plastering applied to the church conversion in 1856 or in 1875 (T.C. van der Sterr) was removed in a recent restoration. The 19th-century cast iron window harnesses have been retained. A clock cast by Peter Waghevens (1519) hangs in the tower, which was turned into plans by A. C. Bleijs in 1878.

The interior is covered by a plastered barrel vault (circa 1856). The inventory includes a pulpit (circa 1640), a gentleman's bench (17th century), a presiding lecturer (second half of the 17th century), a baptistery with copper baptismal arches (early 18th century), an organ built by Johannes Stephanus Strümphler (1779) and cast iron chandeliers (circa 1856). The black marble epitaph with white marble weapons and wreath with death symbols was made by Rombout Verhulst for craftsman Joannes van Gheel († 1668). The presbytery (Spanbroekerweg 25) is a plastered central corridor from 1865 with eclectic details.