Monuments in Noord-Holland

R. Stenvert en C. Kolman (2006)

Gepubliceerd op 30-03-2018

The Herv church in Warmenhuizen

betekenis & definitie

(Dorpsstraat 93), originally dedicated to St. Ursula, is a two-aisled church with five-sided closed choir and a tower of three sections with balustrade and constricted spire. A 14th-century tower with circular arches and an equally gothic choir (elevated second half of the 15th century) arose against a late-13th-century church - of which a piece of wall remains.

The church received a southern transept around 1508, followed by a conversion to pseudobasilical church with two side aisles in the second quarter of that century. The tower, which was built at the time and built around 1600, contains a clock (1595) cast by Willem Wegewaert. During repairs in 1823, the south aisle and the south transept were demolished. The interior has columns with capitals with carved leaf ornaments and it is covered by a wooden barrel vault. In the choir that vault was given a special painting around 1525 by Count Jan van Egmond, with the Last Judgment and four Old Testament representations above the closing. This painting, ascribed to Jan van Scorel, is probably executed by Jacob Cornelisz van Oostzanen. The painted vault was transferred to the Rijksmuseum in 1891 (restored 1890-'93, A.J. Derkinderen), but was restored during the church restoration in 1961-'65 (restored 1991-'98, W. Haakma Wagenaar). Furthermore, the church contains a choir fence (circa 1650), a pulpit (1724) and an organ built by H. Knipscheer (1862).

The neoclassical presbytery (Dorpsstraat 89-91) is a cross two-layer building from 1869.