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Map of the stained glass windows by number in the Janskerk in Gouda

The Stained glass windows in the Sint Janskerk can be viewed by visitors after paying a modest entrance fee. The earliest windows date from 1555, three years after a destructive fire laid waste to the earlier church built in the same place. The creation of stained glass windows was temporarily halted in 1572 following Gouda's decision to side with the Protestant faction in the Eighty Years' War, but the process was resumed a few years later with windows of a different and more worldly character. As a result, the church features stained glass windows from both Roman Catholic and Protestant donors – a highly unusual combination. The most treasured is the series of windows around the Choir that portray the life of John the Baptist, the city's patron saint, in parallel with that of Jesus Christ.

North transept

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Number Date Title Donor Designer Glazier Image
1 1596 Freedom of conscience Staten van Holland Joachim Wtewael Adriaan Gerritsz de Vrije
1a 1933 Mosaic glass
1b 1933 Mosaic glass
1c 2016 Erasmus and the Freedom of Conscience in 2016 Museum Gouda Marc Mulders Marc Mulders
2 1597 Capture of Damietta Haarlem Willem Thibaut
3 1597 The maid of Dordrecht Dordrecht Gerrit Gerritsz Cuyp
4 1594 The heraldic shields of the Dijkreeves under two female representations of Justice and Courage Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland Adriaen Gerritsz de Vrije
5 1561 The Queen of Sheba visits Solomon Elburg van den Boetzelaer Wouter Crabeth I
6 1571 Judith and Holofernes Jan van Ligne Dirk Crabeth
7 1557 The King's window with Solomon in the Tempel and the Last Supper Philip II of Spain Dirk Crabeth
8 1566 The punishment of Heliodorus Eric II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Wouter Crabeth I

Choir

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id date title donor designer glazier image
9 1561 Announcing the birth of John the Baptist Dirck van Hensbeeck Lambert van Noort Digman Meynaert
10 1655 Annunciation Theodorus Spiering van Wen Daniël Tomberg Albert Merinck
11 1562 Birth of John the Baptist Herman Lethmaet Lambert van Noort Digman Meynaert & Hans Scrivers
12 1564 Birth of Jesus Canon priests of Oude Munster Wouter Crabeth I
13 1560 Jesus in the Temple Petrus van Suyren Lambert van Noort Digman Meynaert & Hans Scrivers
14 1557 Jesus on the Mount Robert van Bergen Dirk Crabeth
15 1555 Baptism of Jesus George van Egmond Dirk Crabeth
16 1556 Jesus on the Mount Cornelis van Mierop Dirk Crabeth
17 1556 John's punishment of Herodus Wolter van Byler Jan van Zijl Henricksz
18 1556 Jesus imprisoned Gerrit Heije Gerritsz & Frederik Ariensz Dirk Crabeth
19 1570 Beheading of St. John Hendrik van Zwolle Willem Thybaut
20 1933 Mosaic glass
21 1933 Mosaic glass

South transept

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id date title donor designer glazier image
22 1567 Jesus drives the moneychangers from the Temple Willem the Silent Dirk Crabeth
23 1562 Elijah, with foot washing and with portrait of the donor, the Duchess of Parma Margaret of Parma Wouter Crabeth I
24 1559 Philippus and the King of Ethiopia Philippe de Ligne Dirk Crabeth
25 1603 Siege of Leiden ends Delft Isaac van Swanenburg Dirck Verheyden & Dirk van Douwe
26 1601 Siege of Samaria ends Leiden Isaac van Swanenburg Cornelis Clock
27 1597 Pharisee and the Publican Amsterdam Hendrick de Keyser Cornelis IJsbrantsz Cussens
28 1601 Jesus and the adultress Rotterdam Claes Wytmans
28a 1947 Commemorative window for 1940–1945 Gouda residents Charles Eyck
28b 1935 Window with heraldic shields of donors Rotterdam D. Boode L.J. Knoll
28c 1920 Rebuilding the Temple Rotterdam H. Veldhuis L.J. Knoll
29 1596 The Christian knight and David Cities of North Holland Adriaen Gerritsz de Vrije

Literature

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stained-glass windows in the Grote of Sint - Janskerk (Gouda).
  • Henny VAN HARTEN-BOERS & Zsuzsanna VAN RUYVEN-ZEMAN, The Stained-Glass Windows in the Sint-Janskerk at Gouda. The glazing of the Clerestory of the Choir and of the former Monastic Church of the Regulars, Amsterdam, 1997.
  • Zsuzsanna VAN RUYVEN-ZEMAN, The Stained-Glass Windows in the Sint-Janskerk at Gouda, 1556–1604, Amsterdam, 2000
  • Xander VAN ECK & Christiane E. COEBERGH, The Stained-Glass Windows in the Sint-Janskerk at Gouda. Dirk and Wouter Crabeth, Amsterdam, 2002
  • Zsuzsanna VAN RUYVEN-ZEMAN, Xander VAN ECK & Henny VAN DOLDER – DE WIT, Het geheim van Gouda: de cartons van de Goudse glazen, Zutphen (Walburg Pers) 2002, ISBN 9057301679
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