Uvdal / Opdal

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 April 2007 by Karl Ragnar Gjertsen [http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:Uvdal_kirke.JPG]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Uvdal stavechurch; Nore og Uvdal, Buskerud; Norway - with Nore and Uvdal museum (started in the 1980s). Old local buildings are being reerected on the site. The storehouse to the left belonged to the parish. The oldest parts of the building date back to 1627."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2008 by Evastadler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uvdal_stavkirke_and_museum.jpg] [accessed 2 January 2017]

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view of church interior - chancel

Scene Description: the wooden font just west of the communion railing

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2006 by Frode Inge Helland http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:Uvdal_Stave_Church_interior_01.jpg]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2012 by Zairon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nore_of_Uvdal_Stabkirche_Uvdal_Innen_1.JPG] [accessed 2 January 2017]

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view of font

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Døpefonten fra middelalderen er svært enkel. I bakgrunnen skimtes et rebusmaleri med skjellett og timeglass som spiller på skriftstedet «Den rettferdige er og trøstig i sin død»".

Image Source: digital photograph by Jiri Havran/Arfo forlag, in the Store Norse Leksikon [https://snl.no/Uvdal_stavkirke] [accessed 9 December 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12752UDV

Church/Chapel: Uvdal stavkirke

Church Location: Nore og Uvdal, 3632, Norway -- Tel.: +47 57 67 88 40

Country Name: Norway

Location: Buskerud, Østlandet

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Nore og Uvdal, in the Numedal valley, WNW of Oslo

Ecclesiastic Region: Bispedømme Tunsberg

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the centre aisle, east end, by the presbitery railing

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Medieval

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: stave church 1167; modified 1537; renovated 17th, 18thC -- The church was removed from religious use in 1893 and is now [1901+ ] a museum owned and operated by Fortidsminneforeningen. On the dating of the church itself: "Uvdal stavkirke ble bygd i 1168. Det vet vi ut fra at tømmeret ble hugget vinteren før og det ser ut til at bygningsdelene ble satt sammen før treet hadde tørket helt. Kirken er av Numedal-typen, med midtmast i skipet. Under kirken ble det ved utgravinger i 1979 funnet spor i bakken etter en stolpekirke. Uvdal stavkirke ble ombygd til korskirke i 1723. Korsarmene er også bygd i stavverk. Portalene, alvmaskene over korbuen og vestgalleriets utskjæringer er middelalderske. Den malte renessansedekoren er fra 1600-tallet, og rokokko-ornamentene fra 1700-tallet." [source: http://www.riksantikvaren.no/Norsk/Fagemner/Bygninger/Kirker/Stavkirker/filestore/Uvdal.pdf]

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***NOT YET DONE IN SOLHAUG (2001)*** One of several wooden medieval fonts in Norway C-14 dated by Solhaug (2001). Solhaug (2019): 116: "Verified medieval fonts of pine [wood]: barrel shaped, Øye in Oppland; rectangular, Nore in Buskerud; hour-glass shaped, Amotsdal in Telemark plus Veggli, Uvdal, and Rollag in Buskerud. Font cover: Lomen in Oppland." Dated in Anker (2005) to between 1300 and 1425. Polygonal font made out of a single block of wood; two distinct volumes, both polygonal separated by a broad moulding; the basin appears decagonal or dodecagonal, tapering towards the centre ring; the base appears square with chamfered sides, more irregular; other than the centre ring, the font is plain but painted red. Noted in the Stavechurch entry for this church [https://www.stavechurch.com/uvdal-stavkirke/] [accessed 9 December 2022]: "Døpefonten av tre har form av et timeglass og er laget av ett stykke." The entry for this church in the Store Norse Leksikon [https://snl.no/Uvdal_stavkirke] [accessed 9 December 2022] as an hourglass-shaped font made of a single block of wood, dated to between 1300 and 1425; the missing soapstone basin insert was found broken up and buried in the church grounds; like the other wooden fonts mentioned above, a soapstone basin insert was used in conjunction with the main body of the font, just as metal linings or baptismal dishes were used in post-Reformation times in other parts of Northern Europe; the same source reports that the stone basin are now in a museum: "I koret står en timeglassformet døpefont i tre, av liknende type som i Rollag stavkirke. Den er datert til mellom 1300 og 1425. Kummen i kleber mangler. De istykkerslåtte delene ble funnet under kirkegulvet i 1978 og er i dag i museumsmagasin." [NB: the original stave church has been dated through dendrochronological analyses of its pine logs to 1168; much renovated through the centuries; we have no information on the original baptismal font of the medieval church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 60.265, 8.834722

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 60° 15′ 54″ N, 8° 50′ 5″ E

UTM: 32V 490855 6680936

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood, pine

Number of Pieces: one?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: soapstone insert [cf. FontNotes]