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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