Monuments in Noord-Holland

R. Stenvert en C. Kolman (2006)

Gepubliceerd op 30-03-2018

The R.K. church O.L. Vrouwe Immaculate received in Overveen

betekenis & definitie

(Korte Zijlweg 5) is a three-aisled pseudobasilical cruciform church with a five-sided closed choir. The tower of three sections is crowned by a narrower bell-platform with swirled buttresses and a constricted needle spike. This neo-Gothic church was erected in 1855-'56 to replace a seventeenth-century barn church.

The interior is covered by stucco wooden cross vaults and is provided with bundle pillars with stucco capitals. The inventory includes a sandstone main altar (1856), a Ypma organ (1866-'67), a few marble sculptures by the Mengelberg studio and a by J.H. Brom delivered copper font (1887-'88).

On the cemetery is a neo-Gothic episcopal burial chapel of the Haarlem diocese (1864), posthumously executed after a design by Th. Molkenboer. The chapel is provided with diagonal support bears and a cantilever-like crown. There is also an eclectic presbytery near the church (Korte Zijlweg 7, circa 1860) and the forem. The Mariagesticht (Korte Zijlweg 9). This neo-Gothic sister house with school from around 1890 was expanded around 1925 with a two-tier school building, and is now used as a music school.