The Walburgiskerk is the large church at ‘s Gravenhof in Zutphen. It belongs to the Top 100 of Dutch UNESCO monuments and is counted among the ten most beautiful churches in the Netherlands. The oldest parts of the church date from the eleventh century. The Walburgiskerk was a Catholic church until 1591. After the Reformation it was the main church of the reformed congregation. In 2016, the Protestant Municipality of Zutphen transferred the church to the Stichting Oude Gelderse Kerken. The Walburgiskerk Zutphen Foundation was established in order to obtain a comprehensive and profitable exploitation for the maintenance of the church. The church was radically restored at the end of the nineteenth century under the direction of the architect PJH Cuypers. Various restorations took place between 1970 and 1988. Since the most recent renovation (2018), the church is open to the public all year round.

800 years of construction history

In the thirteenth century this church was renovated in Cologne Romano-Gothic. The choir and transepts were vaulted and the nave was newly built. The ambulatory and Council chapel were built in the fourteenth century. In the fifteenth century, first the side aisles and later the cross chapels were built. Finally, the Maria Portal was created on the north side. In the sixteenth century (1561) the Librije was added. From 1591 the Reformation was introduced and the church was Protestant. In 1637 the tower got its current Baroque spire. This was rebuilt after the tower fire of 1948. The church was radically restored at the end of the nineteenth century under the direction of the neo-Gothic architect PJH Cuypers.

After the Second World War, the war damage was repaired. The church was restored again from 1970 to 1998. The church is owned by the Stichting Oude Gelderse Kerken.