The first designs were too expensive for that period, when prices of building
materials had risen due to the war. The transept was cancelled and so were the
side-aisles as they were originally intended. The resulting church is one of Te
Riele's few pseudo-basilica's, and the nave gets its outside light from a few
high but quite narrow windows. Oddly enough, inside there are some round
openings above the arches of the central aisle which may have been
intended as a clerestorey, but as they lie beneath the roof they serve no
function at all. The front is closely related to that of the church in Boven-Leeuwen of the
same period, with its protruding portal with the tower behind it. The choir is
one of the most modest in Te Riele's career, being just a straight-ended space
with three windows protruding from an otherwise blind wall. The adjacent spaces
have flat roofs and are probably later additions. The roof of the nave was
covered with English slates which were originally meant for Germany but had been
stranded in the Netherlands because of the war and could be obtained cheaply. 
Hooglanderveen
belonged to the parish of Hoogland until in 1916 a brother and sister gave away
their farm and farmland to the church, in order to help found a new parish. The
Archbishop of Utrecht approved and architect W. te Riele was commissioned to
design a church for the new parish.
