Gijsbert Cornelissen van Dorland

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St Lambertus church in Ingen. 1750. Drawing by Jan de Beijer.

The Reformation
Gijsbert was baptized (in 1610) and attended sermons at the St Lambertus church in Ingen.
The Reformation had taken place a few decades before and from 1573 it was forbidden to openly practise Catholicism. All churches were taken over by the Protestants. In several cases priests and congregants just changed 'labels'.

The Church
The church is a mostly late-Gothic three-aisled pseudo-basilica. The lower part of the built-in tower is from the 14th century and belonged to a one-aisled church built in the 12th or 13th century. Part of that church has survived in the east wall of the current nave, which was built shortly after 1494. In the same period the tower was heightened.
The choir had been built earlier in the 15th century and was extended with a chapel on the south side in the 16th century.
View a slideshow on how the church looks today