Complex sentence: The church suffered terribly with floods, and a decision was made to carefully knock it down and construct it again in exactly the same format, it was done between 1875 and 1877 with its foundations raised by; only the tower was left untouched.
Split into simpler sentences: The church suffered terribly with floods, and a decision was made to carefully knock it down and construct it again in exactly the same format. This was done between 1875 and 1877 with its foundations raised by; only the tower was left untouched.