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Kjose Church ( no, Kjose kirke) is a
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of the
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in
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in
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county,
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. It is located in the village of
Kjose Kjose is a village in Larvik Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The village is located on the western shore of the large lake Farris Farris is a 20 km long fresh water moraine-dammed lake near the Norwegian coastal town Larvik. T ...
, near the shore of the lake
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. It is the church for the Kjose
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which is part of the Larvik prosti (
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) in the Diocese of Tunsberg. The white, wooden church was built in a
long church Church building in Norway began when Christianity was established there around the year 1000. The first buildings may have been post churches erected in the 10th or 11th century, but the evidence is inconclusive. For instance under Urnes Stave C ...
design in 1850 using plans drawn up by the
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. The church seats about 170 people.


History

The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1372, but the church was not built that year. The first church in Kjose was likely a wooden
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that may have been built during the 1200s. It was likely built on a site just north of the present church. Around the year 1606, the old church was torn down and replaced with a new
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church building on the same foundation as the original church. The new building had a
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and
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, but no tower. The church bells were simply hung in the attic. The building had a main entrance and church porch on the west end. There was one window of each wall of the nave. In 1626, the church porch was replaced along with several repairs to the building. By the mid-1800s, the old church was in need of repairs and it was too small for the parish. Planning began for a new church to be built next to the old church. The new building was designed by
Gustav Adolph Lammers Gustav Adolph Lammers (26 May 1802 – 2 May 1878) was a Norwegian priest, architect, artist and member of parliament. He founded the country's first dissenter congregation, the first church to officially break away from the Church of Norway. Bio ...
. The new church was built during the summer of 1850 with Anders Tollefsen Bonnegolt and Mikkel Tangane as builders. The new church was
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on 8 August 1850. The new building was a small,
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,
long church Church building in Norway began when Christianity was established there around the year 1000. The first buildings may have been post churches erected in the 10th or 11th century, but the evidence is inconclusive. For instance under Urnes Stave C ...
was built using
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with external wood paneled siding. The church has a west tower with a church porch beneath it. There is a rectangular
nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...
with a
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on the east end. Initially there was no
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but there was a small separate area in the chancel for the priest to use. In 1911, a sacristy extension was built on the east end of the
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. In 1977 an addition off the east end of the sacristy was built containing a kitchen and bathroom.


See also

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List of churches in Tunsberg This list of churches in Tunsberg is a list of the Church of Norway churches in the Diocese of Tunsberg in Norway. It includes all of the parishes in Buskerud and Vestfold counties. The diocese is based at the Tønsberg Cathedral in the city of Tà ...


References

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