Nore Stave Church

Nore Stave Church is a cruciform church of the middle rod pole type, which was originally built as a single-nave stave church. It stands in Nore in Nore og Uvdal municipality in Buskerud (Norway). The origin dates back to the late 12th century. Parts of the structure were dated after 1167 according to an annual ring analysis, but the church was probably built some years later. By rebuilding the church is not received original, but has stamping of the Renaissance and Rococo.

The stave church has 150 seats and is located at Fv116 and the Rv40. The church now belongs to the ancient association Fortidsminneforeningen.

Building

The rectangular nave is built in rod design. The choir and transepts are performed in log home construction. The transepts have final apses and small towers, the central nave has a large octagonal roof skylights. The peculiarity of this stave church is that of the nave mittelmastige building was rebuilt in the Middle Ages to a cruciform church. This is unique in the Norwegian stave churches.

The choir has the same width as the ship. In addition to a south and a north transept there is a porch, called våpenhus (Norwegian = porch ). This is where the weapons were stored before the service earlier.

There were a number of large tags. 1709 and 1714, the aisles were rebuilt, the choir was already expanded in 1683. The church got the våpenhus 1723 and in the mid-18th century, the vestry was built.