The bishop of Utrecht gave permission to build the church. Work began in 1380 according to the text, or about 1385 in the infobox. It was completed in 1408, consecrated in 1409 to St. Mary and St. Catherine, and used for its first masses in 1410. The introduction calls it 15th-century, though building began in the 14th. The article names no architects, dimensions or materials.
City fires damaged it in 1421 and 1452, and a fire in 1645 burned it almost entirely. It was rebuilt in Gothic style. A major renovation from 1892 to 1914 added neo-Gothic details, and a second renovation from 1959 to 1980 was expensive and caused frequent closures.
It was Catholic until it became Dutch Reformed in 1578. It no longer holds regular services and is used for exhibitions and organ recitals, Dutch royal investitures and weddings. Ownership went to the Nationale Stichting De Nieuwe Kerk in 1979.
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