Vardo / Vardø / Várggát / Vuorea
Image copyright © Fanny Schertzer, 2010
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: the new (1958) parish church at Vardø
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fanny Schertzer, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 July 2010 by Fanny Schertzer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vardø_Church.jpg] [accessed 6 September 2017]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Gamle Vardø kyrkje (1869-andre verdskrig} Arkitekt: Chr. H. Grosch" -- "View of Vardø Church in 1933, before the town was burned down in World War II"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken by Anders Beer Wilse in 1933, in the Norsk folkemuseum [Tilvekstnummer: NF.W 40009] [Internnr: NBR9406:19604] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gamle_Vardoe_kyrkje_Wilse.jpeg] [accessed 6 September 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the new (1958) parish church at Vardø
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hans Olav Lien, 2013
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1991 by Hans Olav Lien [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vardø_Church_interior.jpg] [accessed 6 September 2017]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21479VAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Gamle Vardø kyrkje / Vardø kirke [destroyed]
Church Location: 9950 Vardø, Norway
Country Name: Norway
Location: Finnmark, Nord-Norge / Nord-Noreg / Davvi-Norga
Directions to Site: Located off the 344-E75 crossroads, on the island of Vardøya in the Barents Sea, just off the coast of the Varanger Peninsula
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland / Nord-Hålogaland bispedømme
Date: ca. 1307?
Century and Period: 14th century (early?), Gothic
Church Notes: original church consecrated 1307; re-built 1869; old church [Gamle Vardø kyrkje] of 1869 burned down in WWII; re-built 1958
Font Notes:
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[NB: we have no information on the font of the ca. 1307 church here]. [NB: there is another chapel in Vardø, Vardø kapell / Steglnes kapell, in which baptisms, funerals and weddings are also carried out at times, but it is a modern building of 1908 that survived the WWII destruction).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 70.370278, 31.111944
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 70° 22′ 13″ N, 31° 6′ 43″ E
UTM: 36W 429221 7808265