Saint Walburga Church of Wéris

The Romanesque Church of Saint Walburga of Wéris dates from the 11th century and is, together with the church of Tohogne, one of the oldest churches in the region. It was built in the Romanesque Meuse architecture. The square church tower is the oldest part. The church underwent numerous renovations in the 16th and 18th centuries, and was restored in the 20th century. Saint Walburga is the patroness of the farmers, ... In the left corner on the photo the August stone: it was cut down at the beginning of the 20th century. In the blast furnaces of Liège, pudding stone blocks were then used as refractory ground cover. This stone was cut down for this but no longer reached its destination: the outbreak of the war 1914-18 brought an abrupt end to the felling of pudding stone. The residents of Wéris placed the pudding stone block on the lawn behind the church on the occasion of the first Stone Festival in August 1981.

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