Church of Heelsum

The State-Reformed Church of Heelsum (in the Eastern part of The Netherlands) was built in the years 1517-1519. Kolonel Leonhard van Dorp (in my childhood my next-door neighbor), retired chamberlain of H. M. Queen Juliana, was so kind as to give me a picture, draw the ground plan and to dig up some particulars of its history in the files of the church. Heelsum was first a small settlement of the manor of Doorwerth nowadays it is part of the town Renkum. The church is built on a hill amidst...