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This originally 13th-century ochre-coloured church stands on the edge of a mound. Covered with a hipped roof with a gabled spire on top. Inside, we find a few special things: a piscina in a 'keel arch niche', a rare wooden lectern and a pulpit from the early 17th century. The church is dedicated to St.Georgios or St.George. This 4th-century saint is known in Groningen as Saint George of the Legend of the Dragon. This legend tells how Joris killed a dragon that devoured human sacrifices. In the piscinanis, the priest had to wash his hands before mass and the dishes after communion. Usually, the rinse water flowed out through a drain through the wall onto the consecrated ground of the cemetery, so that the priest "ran God's water over God's field (= the cemetery)".