The building is on the Old Market (Oude Markt); around are the streets called Branderijstraat and Lepelstraat.

[1] The fire caused steeple to come crashing down and landed on the rest of the church building.

Once there were 466 graves in the church but after the fire of 1911 only a small number were put back for decoration.

There is in the one epitaph, eight gravestones, including that of Cornelis Lampsins, and a single tomb, in the shape of a needle, for Daniel Octavus Barwell, a passenger of the shipwrecked Woestduin.

In this church is Admiral Michiel de Ruyter was baptized and married.