The Walburg Church of Zutphen

The Dutch architect, Dr. H. P. Berlage, made often in his spare time drawings in old cities and so in the summer of 1920 he went early in the morning to the center of Zutphen, in the Eastern part of The Netherlands. There he found the Walburg Church surrounded by white plastered houses that obstructed his view. This State Reformed Church was built in 1200, ten years after that the city was officially recognized, named after the British missionary Walburg from Wessex, who came with Bonifacius...