Sand-Covered Church (Danish: Den Tilsandede Kirke, also translated as The Buried Church, and also known as Old Skagen Church), Skagen, Jutland,Denmark
The Sand-Covered Church (Danish: Den Tilsandede Kirke, also translated as The Buried Church, and also known as Old Skagen Church) is the name given to a late 14th-century church dedicated to Saint Lawrence of Rome. It was a brick church of considerable size, located 2 kilometres ( mi) southwest of the town centre of Skagen, Denmark. During the last half of the 18th century the church was partially buried by sand from nearby dunes; the congregation had to dig out the entrance each time a service was to be held. The struggle to keep the church free of sand lasted until 1795, when it was abandoned. The church was demolished, leaving the tower with crow-stepped gable as the only part of the original structure still standing. The church is one of the oldest buildings in Skagen.[3] It was built of brick in the Gothic style between 1355 and 1387 (the date of its first mention). The church had a long vaulted nave, with exterior buttresses, and a tower with crow-stepped gable, added around 1475. The vestry was on the north side, the porch on the south side, and the tower on the west end of the nave. The church was 45 metres (148 ft) long including the tower, which is a bit more than 22 metres (72 ft) high. The body of the church was built in red brick with a lead roof, and the tower raised in patterned yellow brick, which was whitewashed over after 1816. The bricks were imported from the Netherlands and Germany, especially from Lübeck. Approximately 18 metres (59 ft) of the tower is visible above the sand today. (source: Wikipedia)
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Location: Den Tilsandede Kirke, Skagen, Frederikshavn Municipality in Nordjylland, Jutland,Denmark
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