Lienden (G): reformed church
The first church of Lienden was
founded in the 11th century and belonged to St. Paul's abbey in
Utrecht. Of the original church nothing remains. The current
church is a
late-Gothic three-aisled pseudo-basilica. The oldest part of the church
is the
modest choir with attached to it a sacristy, both built in ca.
1400. The
higher nave was built in the first half of the 15th century. After the
nave had been completed in ca. 1450, the tower was built. The lower
part of this tower was built of tuff of an earlier church and is
decorated with details that are closely related to Romanesque. The
upper two segments are mostly built of brick and are decorated with
tall niches. The tower is in Lower Rhine Gothic style.
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