Full moon at the Sint-Franciscuschurch in Oudewater by Jeroen de Jongh Photography

About "Full moon at the Sint-Franciscuschurch in Oudewater"

by Jeroen de Jongh Photography

About the artwork

The Sint-Franciscus church is a Roman Catholic church in Oudewater. The church was built between 1881 and 1882 to replace an older and smaller church from 1803. The Sint-Franciscus church was designed by Evert Margry, who had been a pupil of Pierre Cuypers. Margry designed a three-aisled neo-Gothic cruciform church, with a presbytery. Margry also designed the main altar and the altars in the side chapels. Much of the rest of the interior, including the Stations of the Cross, is also from his studio. The Sint-Franciscus church has a tower of 60 metres high.

Oudewater is a city and municipality in the Dutch province of Utrecht. The place obtained city rights in 1265 and is thus the oldest city in the Green Heart. Oudewater is located at the mouth of the river Lange Linschoten in the Hollandse IJssel. Oudewater has over 300 historic buildings, 97 municipal monuments and 127 national monuments and therefore has the highest monument density of the Netherlands. The city is internationally known because of the 'Heksenwaag' (1545) and became rich because of the rope industry, which gave the inhabitants the nickname 'Yellowbellies'.

Oudewater has many monuments, including the 'Heksenwaag', Touwmuseum 'De Baanschuur', Grote of Sint-Michaelskerk from the 15th century, the Town Hall of Oudewater with its Renaissance style facade from 1588, and the Roman Catholic Sint-Franciscuskerk from 1881. A large part of the town centre has been declared a protected townscape and has 95 municip