Heddal Stavkyrkje - Telemark, Norway
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N 59° 34.772 E 009° 10.581
32V E 509960 N 6604599
Heddal Stave Church is a triple nave stave church and is the largest of the 28 stave churches still remaining in Norway. It was constructed at the beginning of the 13th century.
Waymark Code: WM176AT
Location: Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
Date Posted: 12/22/2022
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Heddal stave church was probably built in the first half of the 13th century. The church is a three-armed cross church and in its current form is the largest of the remaining stave churches. The middle room, which is drilled on foundations, has three intermediate posts in each of the long walls, as well as one post in each short wall. The four corner staves in the nave, as well as the plank walls in the aisle, are original. Both the nave and the chancel have raised central spaces, as well as that they both have roof riders. The whole church is surrounded by a chancel, in addition to the fact that the church has an apse at the end of the choir in the east with both a spire and a cone-shaped roof. After the Reformation, the church was in poor condition and was heavily restored in the period 1849-1851 according to plans by architect Johan Heinrich Nebelong. In the period from 1930 to 1955, the church was restored to its assumed design from the Middle Ages. (Source: Anker, Leif: De norske stavkirkene, Oslo 2005)
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