Holmedal Church

This article is about the church in Askvoll, Norway. For the church in Kvinnherad, Norway, see Holmedal Church (Hordaland).
Holmedal Church
Holmedal kyrkje

View of the church
Holmedal Church
Location in Sogn og Fjordane county
61°21′31″N 5°11′18″E / 61.3587°N 5.1884°E / 61.3587; 5.1884Coordinates: 61°21′31″N 5°11′18″E / 61.3587°N 5.1884°E / 61.3587; 5.1884
Location Askvoll Municipality,
Sogn og Fjordane
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran
History
Consecrated 24 November 1868
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Christian Christie
Completed 1868
Specifications
Capacity 432
Materials Wood
Administration
Parish Askvoll
Deanery Sunnfjord prosti
Diocese Diocese of Bjørgvin

Holmedal Church (Norwegian: Holmedal kyrkje) is a parish church in Askvoll Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located in the village of Holmedal, on the northern shore of the Dalsfjorden. The church is part of the Askvoll parish in the Sunnfjord deanery in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, wooden church seats 432 and it was consecrated on 24 November 1868 by bishop Peter Hersleb Graah Birkeland. The architect Eilert Christian Brodtkorb Christie designed the church.[1][2]

History

This church is the third church on this site. The first known church was a stave church from the 13th century. A second church was built around the year 1600, and the third (and present) church was built in 1868.

Holmedal is an ancient church site, which in former times was a centre for a relatively large area. It was not without reason that the present municipalities of Gaular and Fjaler previously were called Indre Holmedal and Ytre Holmedal respectively. This church was the main church for the old Holmedal parish, which once covered the length of the Dalsfjorden and further up the river Gaula to the Gaularfjellet mountains. Over time, the old parish was split up into two parishes and then in 1990, this part of Fjaler municipality was transferred to Askvoll municipality. The church is now one of the churches in the Askvoll parish.[3]

Building

The nave is about 16 metres (52 ft) long and 11 metres (36 ft) wide, including the side aisles with a total width of 4 metres (13 ft). Furthest to the east, the chancel is rounded off with an apse-inspired three-sided wall encircling the beautiful altarpiece from the 17th century and the altar table. The octagonal altar rail complements the architectural lines in this part of the church. On the eastern wall above the altarpiece there is a square window put on edge showing a dove motif in coloured glass. In the central nave there are five big windows in the upper part of the walls, but none on the walls in the side aisles. All the windows are divided into five sections with a clover-leaf pattern on top. This clover-leaf form is repeated in many places in the interior, for example as a decorative element on the organ, and carvings in the partition corners between the main and side aisles.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Holmedal kyrkje". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
  2. ↑ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
  3. 1 2 "Holmedal Church". Sogn og Fjordane Fylkesarkiv. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, October 01, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.