Sand-Covered Church

The Sand-Covered Church Danish: Den Tilsandede Kirke, additionally translated as The Buried Church, and also known as Old Skagen Church is the call given to a past due 14th-century church committed to Saint Lawrence of Rome. It turned into a brick church of full-size size, placed 2 kilometres 1.2 mi southwest of the town centre of Skagen, Denmark. During the last 1/2 of the 18th century the church turned into partly buried by sand from close by dunes; the congregation needed to dig out the doorway on every occasion a carrier was to be held. The war to keep the church freed from sand lasted until

1795, when it changed into abandoned. The church was demolished, leaving the tower with crow-stepped gable as the simplest part of the original shape nonetheless status. The church is one of the oldest homes in Skagen. It become constructed of brick in the Gothic fashion among 1355 and 1387 the date of its first mention. The church had a protracted vaulted nave, with exterior buttresses, and a tower with crow-stepped gable, delivered round 1475.