The Saint-Lambert church in Ligny

The parish of Ligny is quite new. It dates from the 18th century. Before that, it was Tongrinne-Ligny. What is certain is that a castle chapel was part of the old castle-farm of Looz-Corswarem, ruined during the revolution and razed after the battle of Ligny (16 June 1815).Written traces of the existence of a church date back to the time when the abbey of Villers-la-Ville, exercising the patronage of the church of Tongrinne, agreed to pay for a certain number of masses to the chaplain of Ligny. The second church of Ligny was consecrated in 1756 by the bishop of Namur and was a direct witness to the fierce fighting between Napoleon's French and Blücher's Prussians on 16 June 1815, two days before Waterloo. The current church replaced it in 1895.Source: www.upsombreffe.be/unite-pastorale/paroisses/ligny/historique-ligny/