The former catholic St. Vituskerk already closed in 1982 and was damaged by fire in 1988. It is being rebuilt into apartments right now. Architect P.J.H. Cuypers was told by the commissioner to base his design on that of the medieval Broederenkerk in Zutphen, which is also a three-aisled basilican church with a one-aisled choir and no transept. Especially the heavy flying buttresses are very similar to those in Zutphen. A few years later Cuypers used this example again for his design for the St. Jozef in Groningen. In both cases he added a tower, as the Broederenkerk was built as a monastic church, with no tower. The St. Vitus was given a tower that was obviously inspired by the 16th-century one of Eemnes-Buiten, a specimen of Utrecht Gothicism. This was probably not Cuypers' choice either, as he had designed a tower with an octagonal upper segment.
The pictures on this page were made while the church was undergoing its transformation, and can only give a limited impression of what the church looked like.