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Dutch Reformed Church. Three-aisled PSEUDOBASILIC (16th century) with five-sided closed choir and narrow ambulatory. The three naves and the ambulatory under a high roof. Major renovations in 1774, when, among other things, the tower was demolished and replaced by a new west facade, above which an open dome tower. The church was restored in 1842-1843. Slender columns inside; a wooden barrel vault with tie beams over the tall central nave and half barrel vaults over the side aisles and ambulatory. Good inventory: pulpit in Lod. XVI-like forms (1842); baptismal fence (17th century B) with precentor's lectern (18th century A); beautifully carved lord's pew (1652); three copper crowns (18th century?); grave board (1679); several tombstones (17th-18th century). Bell tower with clock by H. Meurs, 1605, diam. 67.3 cm.

Dutch Reformed Church. Consisting of the choir of the late 15th century Lambertus Church, destroyed in 1587. Closed on three sides, provided with buttresses, pointed arch windows, slate saddle roof with roof turret, in which bell from 1668 by P. Hemony. The church restored in 1963. Double copper eight-light crown, cast by Borghart in Den Bosch in 1794; tombstone from 1561 for "frater Thomas de Berhey". Bell frame with bell by Pieter Hemony, 1668, diam. 56.5 cm.

In the years 1881-1884 the firm Ibach built an organ for the Reformed Church in Rhenoy. The instrument was built in the church by Adrianus van Ingen. Upon completion the Gemshorn 8' and the Trumpet of the Main Work were reserved. These were never installed again. In 1950 the firm De Koff & Zn. carried out a revision. They placed the third choir of the Sesquialter as an independent register on the reserved slide of the Trumpet 8'. The firm SF Blank restored the organ in 1990. The Sesquialter was restored. The slide of the Trumpet remained unoccupied.

In 1408 a chapel dedicated to St. Sebastian was already mentioned. In 1449 the church was enlarged. In 1544 Ilpendam had a parish church. As a result of the Eighty Years' War the church was largely destroyed. Remains from the old church are the roguish statues in the choir closure. During the Reformation the church was transferred to the Dutch Reformed Church. A definitive reconstruction took place in 1656. The church then got its current form. In the years 1723, 1850, 1922, 1946 and 1984 the church was restored. The last major maintenance took place in 2004/2005.

The building has a two-sided closed hipped roof, covered with a black glazed Frisian corrugated tile, against a straight front facade; under the gutter (not original) a frieze of decorative brickwork in red, yellow and lime sand brick. The rear facade is crowned by an octagonal piron with plume. The two side facades (north and south), which are divided into four by brick lesenes, each have four pointed arch windows with cast iron tracery under a pointed arch of dark brick. The front facade (west) with a climbing frieze of red, yellow and dark brick is flanked on both corners by pilasters with recessed surfaces of lime sand brick and is crowned by a roof turret. The roof turret has a plastered lantern with pointed arch-shaped sound holes and a constricted spire covered with slates; under the roof turret a (non-original) clock face with: anno 1958. In the middle of the front facade a double panel door with a brick stoop (two steps) under a pointed arch of red and yellow brick surrounded by dark stone; in the arch drum filled with red brick a pointed arch-shaped facade stone with the text: built in 1889, churchwardens DB Smedema, OR Clevering, WO Wolthuis. To the left of the door two bricks with the initials WW and OC and to the right of the door two with Ds. E. and DS. On either side of the entrance a pointed arch window with cast iron tracery under a pointed arch of red brick surrounded by a projecting pointed arch of dark stone with blocks; the sills of dark brick also have blocks. Above the entrance a cast iron rose window with a roll layer of red, yellow and lime sandstone.

Hall church from around 1825 with pointed arch windows and an octagonal wooden bell tower. It has a neo-classical entrance. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Reformed church in Maarsbergen, built in 1883-1884 by order of Geertruida Adriana du Bois, widow of CJ Blok. The church is said to have been built in response to the wishes of her brother, Aalt du Bois. The Du Bois family lived in Maarsbergen Castle and had the church built on their own land. The hall church, built in eclectic style, was designed by architects FW van Gendt and AR Freem. The Renaissance features that can also be seen in the Amsterdam Zuider- and Westerkerk can be seen, particularly in the tower and the buttresses. In 1934, the tower was built on the initiative of the Commission for the commemoration of the 50th anniversary, based on plans by architect J. Pothoven. This tower with an open imperial crown replaced a small facade crowning. This original crowning is indicated on the design drawings of the Maarsbergen church. The front and rear facades originally had a simple articulated crowning. On the front facade a bell was placed under a canopy, on the back facade a spherical crowning. The interior has been preserved intact. The organ is protected by the state. A meeting room was built against the back facade of the church, which is not protected. The north facade of this building dates from the 19th century. Originally the building served as a school building.

Dutch Reformed Church. Simple Gothic church from 1794 with a bell spire above the west facade from 1869. Internal oak pulpit (recently painted pastel) with sounding board. Bell tower with bell by N. Rogier, 1629, diam. 110.5 cm. Mechanical wrought iron tower clock, ca. 1870. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

The church was restored between early 2000 and spring 2007. The restoration plan was drawn up by the architectural firm Jelle de Jong in Lemmer. That does not mean that there were no churchgoers in the church for seven years. First, the tower was restored. Then the exterior and interior of the church followed. And church services continued as much as possible. 18 gravestones were removed from under the floor. Two of these were very old. The squat (gallery) has disappeared. It was needed at the time when a liberal minister came to Wommels and many churchgoers from Wommels came to Kubaard. After an open house on 21 April 2007, the restored church was officially put back into use. (53-05/58-07)