Proposed Vrouwekerk Presentation

"Proposal for the conservation of the Leiden Vrouwekerk ruin and the presentation of its role as a symbol of the contacts and migrations of the Walloon-Huguenot and Pilgrim refugees in the 17^th century, together with commemoration of the significance of the Vrouwekerk as one of Leiden's three parish churches before the Reformation."

1. This choir floor should be paved with "blue stone" slabs, as was customary in Dutch churches
2. Pedestal with bronze model of church
3. Foundations of inner choir wall to be exposed (presently covered)
4. Display panel for texts and maps, showing origins of refuge groups and their eventual destinations
5. Reconstructed wall indication; this was done on original foundations at street level in 1982
6. Exposed foundations to be shown under glass
7. Medieval wall
8. Medieval buttress
9. Open archway added ca. 1600; bricked up since ca. 1982
10. The sacristy or chapel wall was demolished in 1982. It should be rebuilt with its niche and portal (plaster and whitewash)
11. This portal should be moved back to its original position on this side of the sacristy wall. It was moved ca. 1982
12. This support wall (rebuilt in 1982) should be reduced in height. Although there was a wall here when the sacristy or side chapel was added, there may have been arches here, not a solid wall
13. House, ca. 1600
14. The low area is a 17^th century Fire Department house
15. Pre-1600 houses with later details and altered gable on one of them
16. Five pre-1600 and 18^th century houses
17. Marekerk 1649