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The Martinuskerk in Markelo , is a Protestant church built in 1840 after the demolition of the older church.

Beautiful village church with charming, iconic tower. Characteristic Protestant interior, almost completely filled with pews. The "attention wall" with pulpit and baptismal font is located in the right (= southern) side of the interior. In that wall are also two colorful modern stained glass windows, on either side of the pulpit. This church is listed as a Municipal Monument of the Netherlands.

Dutch Reformed Church. Late Gothic building, substructure tower (14th century), raised 15th B; choir mid 15th; transept and chapels against the tower 15th B; nave replacing an older one, 16th. Restored ca. 1920-1934. Rectangular choir, three-aisled nave, of which the side aisles have gables with hipped roofs on each bay. Simple brick columns, barrel vaults with tie beams. Inventory: partly late Gothic choir screen, pulpit 1774, lords' pews and text boards (17th), many tombstones. In the southern transept fresco, depicting the Last Judgement, ca. 1500. Organ with main work, upper work and free pedal, made in 1860 by WH Kam (Dordrecht) for the Poor Church (Bethlehemskerk) in The Hague. Purchased in 1977, restored by Fama & Raadgever and placed in Poortugaal. In the church a bell of an anonymous founder, 1525, diam. 116.5 cm.

Brick church from the 14th century. The tower was originally separate from the church and is somewhat older. The church has a Romanesque Bentheimer stone baptismal font. Under the choir lie several mummies. Enlarged in 1849, choir built in 1915.

Extremely important historical village church with tower. Particularly important for the English organ, and the series of stained glass windows. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

The Dorpskerk in Abcoude is a historic village church dating from the 14th century. It is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands. It is currently used as a place of worship by the Protestant Church.

This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Village church.

Protestant church and bell tower of the Protestant Regional Community of Frieslands End.

The building consists of a Romanesque single-aisled nave (12th century) and a late Gothic choir with two side chapels and a sacristy. The nave walls are built of primeval stone up to three-quarters of their height; each has a round-arched gate closed with brick. The vaults, which collapsed in 1747, were re-installed in the choir during the restoration in 1961; the nave has retained a wooden pointed barrel vault. Oak pulpit (18th century).