St. Olav's Church (ruin)

The ruins of St. Olav's Church (Skeidi Church) is located at Bamble Cemetery
St. Olav's Church's (Skeidi Church) main portal, with double chevron arch and columns

St. Olav's Church ruin (Norwegian: Olavskirken, after Protestant Reformation named Skeidi Church) are the ruins of a stone church built before 1150 in the municipality of Bamble in Telemark county, Norway. The church was probably about four feet longer than the ruins suggests, and in this case, Telemark's largest stone church in former times. It had a number of unusual building features, including lektorium and a separate room for earthly values, which today is called "Mary's Chapel."[1] Until 1738 the parish comprised Skeidi parish was Sannidal, Skåtøy, Kragerø and Bamble. Probably the church was the main church in Grenland, a kind of "county church" and therefore had the highest status of all churches in the area.[2]

Today the church ruins are located next to the newer Bamble Church, by the E18 through Bamble.

References

  1. ↑ Bamble Church about the church ruins in Norwegian
  2. ↑ www.miklaborg.net in Norwegian
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Coordinates: 59°00′35″N 009°39′48″E / 59.00972°N 9.66333°E / 59.00972; 9.66333

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