Like
many churches in Friesland and Groningen, the church of Leermens
is built on top of an artificial hill. It is a church with a
complicated history. Of a tuff church built in ca. 1000 only
the side-walls of the nave remain. In ca. 1100 a lengthened choir
was built, to which two lateral chapels were added in 1175, using
both tuff and brick. The lateral chapels were later transformed
into a transept. The nave was heightened and the tower was replaced
by a westwork with two towers. In 1822 this westwork was demolished
and replaced by a new facade with a lantern-tower on top. The
current tower dates from a restoration after a fire destroyed
the old one, as well as much of the western part of the church,
in 1957.
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