Church of Our Lady

The church was already classified as a monument in 1936. The place of worship contains an important Romanesque core and was rebuilt in early Gothic style in the late 13th^{and early} 14th century to get its current form around the last quarter of the eighteenth century. For example, the original aisles were demolished and replaced and the church was brought under one roof. The current church is particularly striking because of the various volumes of which it is composed: square west tower, three-aisled nave with slightly protruding transept, the choir, the east and south sacristy. As materials were used: quarry stone for the oldest parts, baking and sandstone for the east sacristy, brick on sandstone plinth for the nave.

Above the entrance, below the cornice of the west façade, the chiseled sandstone human heads, tarnished by the ravages of time, attract our attention. According to a^16th-century legend, these grim masks would represent a Liefering farmer with his twelve sons who helped their lord in the fight against a rival of another village. We should at least take this explanation with a grain of salt because under the roof there are no less than 33 chiseled heads that adorned the cornice of the early Gothic church.

The beautiful interior of the church dates largely from the 18th^{century and} hovers between late Baroque and Rococo. Noteworthy is the late Gothic,^15th-century baptismal font in bluestone. In front of the altar is the beautiful tombstone of father Guillelmus De Groote, village shepherd of Lieferinge for twenty-one years and died there in 1646. The beautiful tombstone of Philippus de Colins (+1777) is a fine example of funerary art.

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