The catholic
church of Heeten was
built to replace a smaller building, built in 1791 which by 1890 had
become much too small. Architect Alfred Tepe was commissioned to design
the new church. Remarkable is the tower which, not unique but still unusual in Tepe's career, has no buttresses. The actual church is a
three-aisled hall-church modelled after Westphalian examples, notably
the St. Martini in Münster, Germany. It has a wide central aisle and
side-aisles of half that width. Although the three aisles are equally
high, they are each covered by a seperate roof, with the one on the
main aisle being taller than the other two. At the west side, the
side-aisles end in polygonal chapels that partly flank the tower. Each
trave of the nave is illuminated by two high, pointed windows. East of
the nave is a transept with two polygonal arms. This transept is only a
little wider than the nave. In the corners between transepts and choir
are lateral chapels which, together with the transepts and the apse of
the choir, form a series of radiating chapels. Tepe later
used
the same configuration for his churches in Tubbergen and
Bawinkel (Germany).
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