Nore / Nórar

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view of church exterior - south transept - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nore stavkirke i Nore og Uvdal kommune, Buskerud [...] utskjæringer_på_ytterveggen."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bohuslen, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2011 by Bohuslen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nore_stavkirke,_utskjæringer_på_ytterveggen.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2022]
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view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nore stavkirke i Nore og Uvdal kommune, Buskerud."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bohuslen, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2011 by Bohuslen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nore_stavkirke,__inngangen.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2022]
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nore stavkirke i Nore, Buskerud. Vestinngang"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a 1931 B&W photograph by Hohan Meyer, in the Riksantikvaren / Direktoratet for kulturminneforvaltning [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nore_stavkirke,_Buskerud_-_Riksantikvaren-T070_01_0163.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2022]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nore stavkirke i Nore, Buskerud"
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Image Source: digital image of an undated [pre-1956] B&W photograph by Anders Bugge, in the Riksantikvaren / Direktoratet for kulturminneforvaltning [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nore_stavkirke,_Buskerud_-_Riksantikvaren-T070_01_0159.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2022]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nore Stavkirke"
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Image Source: digital photograph 21 August 2013 by Bosc d'Anjou [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nore_Stavkirke_01_(15187740950).jpg] [accessed 7 December 2022]
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view of church interior - chancel and east end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Interiør i Nore stavkirke"
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Image Source: digital image [edited] of a pre-1937 photograph by Christian Christensen Thomhav, in the Riksantikvaren / Direktoratet for kulturminneforvaltning [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nore_stavkirke,_Buskerud_-_Riksantikvaren-T070_02_0788.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nore stavkirke kirkerommet sett fra bakdør" -- showing the font in the centre of the image, by the Communion railing
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Norges Kirker, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 8 June 2007 in Norges Kirker [https://norgeskirker.no/wiki/Fil:Nore_stavkirke_kirkerommet_sett_fra_bakdør_2.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2022]
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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nore stavkirke Kirkerommet sett fra kor"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Norges Kirker, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 8 June 2007 in Norges Kirker [https://norgeskirker.no/wiki/Fil:Nore_stavkirke_Kirkerommet_sett_fra_kor.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2022]
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view of church interior - nave - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Interiør i Nore stavkirke."
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Image Source: digital image [edited] of a 1901 photograph in the Riksantikvarens Kulturminnebilder [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nore_stavkirke_T070_02_0793.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2022]
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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nore stavkirke Døpefont"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Norges Kirker, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 8 June 2007 in Norges Kirker [https://norgeskirker.no/wiki/Fil:Nore_stavkirke_Døpefont_2.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2022]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 24489NOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Nore stavkirke
Church Location: Fjordvegen 90, 3629 Nore, Norway
Country Name: Norway
Location: Viken, Østlandet
Directions to Site: Located off the Fv116, across (W) the Frygnefjorden from the Rv40, about 70 km NW of Drammen
Ecclesiastic Region: Tunsberg Bispedømme
Historical Region: Numedal / Buskerud
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, E end
Century and Period: Medieval
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: original church mid-to-late 12thC; much modified 17th, 18thC
Font Notes:
***NOT YET DONE IN SOLHAUG (2001)*** [NB: the font is described as wooden in some sources [cf. infra] and as soapstone in others; the outer frame is made of pine wood, the basin insert(?) is made of stone] 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." The entry for this church in Norges Kirker [https://norgeskirker.no/wiki/Nore_gamle_kirke] [accessed 7 December 2022] describes the rectangular baptismal font here: "Døpefont, kleber, middelaldersk, rektangulær kum med svakt skrånende sider. Avløpshull i et hjørne i bunnen. Smal vulst langs øvre kant utvendig. Kummen er innkledd med bord på 3 sider. Foten består av en 4-sidet, tilhugget kubbe med avløpshull for vannet. Sidene skråner nedad. To av sidene har skåret siksakbånd etter midten, den tredje side har malt bånd. Langs nedre kant går en grovt skåret rillebord. Nedre del, som har vært defekt på en side, er reparert med et bord. Farver: Rester av flammet rødmaling, ant. fra 1600-årene, skimtes under grønnmaling, ant. fra 1700-årene. Den skårne siksakborden er grønn med røde sider, den malte bord er trukket opp med rødt. Bordet som er anvendt ved reparasjonen, er kalket gråhvitt. Kummens mål: 52 X 45 cm, h. ca. 25 cm. Fotens høyde ca. 56 cm." No cover present. [NB: the new church of 1880 has its own, modern font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 60.164535, 9.010286
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 60° 9′ 52.33″ N, 9° 0′ 37.03″ E
UTM: 32V 500571 6669735

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood, pine
Font Shape: rectangular (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
Drainage Notes: soapstone basin insert [cf. FontNotes]
Basin Total Height: 25 cm*
Height of Base: 56 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 81 cm [calculated]
Trapezoidal Basin: 52 x 45 cm*