The church was built in stages between 1921 and 1926 in an Expressionism-influenced architectural style designed by architect Jules Kayser. The main form is a central building with choir and street chapels. A sketch from before construction shows a separate bell tower west of the church. This was never built. Partly for this reason, the entrance party was moved to a newly designed nave on the southwest side of the central building. The sacristy with chapel was designed between 1921 and 1926. In 1926 a design was also made to expand the church on both sides of the nave and the central building with side aisles and cross arms. In 1946 the entrance portal of the church was changed.
The building has a complex, cruciform floor plan. The high central building is surrounded by lower building volumes in two levels. As a result, the front view from the Straelseweg appears to have a gradually widening and increasing building mass. Both the sacristy and the chancel have a partial basement. The high four-sided central building is covered by a composition of four gable roofs inserted at right angles to each other, with a cross-shaped ridge line. At the intersection of these four roofs is a roof turret with a bell. This ridge rider is clad in zinc and copper.
The central building has a buttress construction on all four corners, which is covered by a combination of a tent and a gable roof. The seven-sided choir has a composite gable and tent roof. Both cross arms have a half hipped roof. The nave has a gable roof, the entrance party in line with this has a half tent roof. The ridge height of the aisles of the nave, the sacristy and the extensions in the armpits of the central building and cross arms, nave or choir reaches to the gutter height of cross arms, nave and choir. These are mainly pent roofs. The roof of the sacristy with chapel on the north side is a combined saddle-cum-hip roof with an L-shaped ridge line. On the ridge of the sacristy is a tall chimney. All roofs are covered with red, right-covering Dutch tiles and have box gutters without overhang. The entire church is built in a dark tinted brick. The facades are characterized by an expressive brick application, especially in the vertical ornamentation in the central building.
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