St. Ambrose Church

This Roman Catholic church was built in 1915-1916 in the still virtually undeveloped Leusderkwartier. The building became the landmark in a neighborhood of working-class and middle-class housing. The asymmetrical facade in neo-Gothic style has two pointed towers of different sizes.

The church is a design by noted Deventer church builder Wolter ter Riele (1867-1937), who received his training in part from Pierre Cuypers, the great architect of neo-Gothic architecture. The church, a municipal monument, is dedicated to St. Arsfridus, the canonized nobleman who around 1000 founded the monastery Hohorst
on Heiligenberg in Leusden.