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view of church exterior

Scene Description: Atrå gamle-kyrkja: probably a west view, with the south porch [wapenhus?] partly visible on the right

Image Source: digital image of a 1833 drawing in the Nasjonalbiblioteket [Bilde 13] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atraa_stavkirke.jpg] [accessed 16 September 2017]

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view of church exterior - portal - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Portal der Stabkirche aus Tinn, Telemark, 1163-89 n. Chr., Kulturhistorisk Museum Oslo" -- the wooden threshold is probably from the south portal of the old church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2015 by Hermann Junghans [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stavkirkeportal_Oslo.JPG] [accessed 17 September 2017]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the modern church of 1839

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 June 2007 by Trond Strandsberg [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atrå_kirke_TRS_070603_048.jpg] [accessed 16 September 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the modern font up the stairs, by the communion railing, inside the modern [1839] parish church at Atrå

Image Source: digital photograph 2016 in Kirkesøk.no [www.kirkesok.no/kirker/Atraa-kyrkje] [accessed 16 September 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the modern font in the foreground [east] of the interior of the modern [1839] parish church at Atrå

Image Source: digital photograph 2016 in Kirkesøk.no [www.kirkesok.no/kirker/Atraa-kyrkje] [accessed 16 September 2017]

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view of font

Scene Description: The font is shown on the left in the company of two other post-Reformarrtion fonts in the area [NB: the Atrå font is caption as "Tind", for the municipality to which it belongs].

Image Source: digital image of a lithograph of a drawing by F.W. Schiertz, in Dahl (1837), Tab. VIII

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view of font

Scene Description: the disappeared post-Reformation font of the old church

Image Source: detail of a digital image of a lithograph of a drawing by F.W. Schiertz, in Dahl (1837), Tab. VIII

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INFORMATION

FontID: 21506ATR

Church/Chapel: Atrå kirke [Atrå gamle kyrkje]

Church Location: 3656 Atrå, Norway

Country Name: Norway

Location: Telemark

Directions to Site: Located off road 364, where the road turns around the NW tip of Tinnsjøen, 8 km N of Miland, 25 km from Rjukan, NNW of Notodden; it is in the municipality of Tinn [aka Tind]

Ecclesiastic Region: Agder og Telemark bispedømme

Date: ca. 1180?

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque

Church Notes: earlier wooden church, originally ca. 1180, demolished 1833; present church built 1836 -- a priest here, Aslakr, left his name in Runic inscription in this church [source: Terje Spurkland's Norwegian Runes and Runic Inscriptions (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2005), p. 170 [transl. of the author's 2001 original in Norwegian]

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A post-Reformation font of wood was illustrated in Dahl in 1837, a drawing by F.W. Schiertz, that was later reproduced in Solhaug (2001) [NB: the drawing of this font is labelled "Tind", which corresponds to the name of the municipality in which Atrå uis located]; the drawing shows a baptismal font made of wood, somewhat similar to others in a group of such post-Reformation fonts in this area (Bø, Gåra, etc.); round and probably monolithic, with both ends tapering in towards a moulding at the centre-ring position, the sides patterned with fluting or concave ribbing; the fonts in this group show marked individual differences, such as the shape of the ring moulding; in the case of the font here it had a triple moulding, if the 1837 drawing is representative of the real object. Solhaug's reproduced illustration of the post-Reformation font is captioned "tapt" [lost]. The present font in the new parish church at Atrå is contemporary with the building, of the 1830s.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 59.988384, 8.731942

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 59° 59′ 18.18″ N, 8° 43′ 54.99″ E

UTM: 32V 485043 6650148

REFERENCES

Dahl, J.C.C., Denkmale einer sehr ausgebildeten Holzbaukunst aus den frühsten Jahrhunderten in den innern Landschaften Norwegens., Dresden: [s.n.], 1836-1837

Solhaug, Mona Bramer, Middelalderens døpefonter i Norge, Oslo: Unipub forlag -- Det historisk filosofiske fakultetet, Universitetet i Oslo, 2001