Kodal Church ( no, Kodal kirke) is a long church ( no, langkirke) located in

Kodal Kodal is a village and parish in Sandefjord municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. Kodal is mostly a rural area, with a population of 971 as of 2014. It is located ten kilometers north of Sandefjord city center and eleven miles south of the tow ...

in the municipality of

Sandefjord Sandefjord () is a city and the most populous municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. The municipality of Sandefjord was established on 1 January 1838. The municipality of Sandar was merged into Sandefjord on 1 January 1969. On 1 ...

Vestfold og Telemark Vestfold og Telemark (; ) is a county under disestablishment in Norway. The county is the southernmost one of Eastern Norway and consists of two distinct and separate traditional regions: the former counties of Telemark and (most of) Vestfold ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

. The church is the parish church for Kodal. Its chancel dates from the 12th century. The nave dates from 1691 and is made of round timbers. The altarpiece dates from 1781, and the painting ''Jesus and the Disciples on the Walk to Emmaus'' by

Otto Valstad Otto Valstad (11 December 1862 – 20 June 1950) was a Norwegian educator, painter, book illustrator and children's writer. Biography He was born at Asker in Akershus, Norway. He was the son of Andreas Olsen Valstad (1828–1911) and Lisa Jo ...

is painted in the style of Anton Dorph and is from 1899. Kodal Church was mentioned in written sources for the first time in 1339. When the medieval

Sandar Church Sandar Church (Norwegian: ''Sandar kirke'') is the oldest church in Sandefjord, Norway in Vestfold og Telemark. The church was erected at the ruins of a mediaeval stone church from the 13th century. The current church was built in 1792 in the st ...

, located about south of Kodal Church, was razed in 1790, the altarpiece from Sandar was moved to Kodal Church. In 1893 Kodal Church received its first organ, and in 1919 new bells from the

Olsen Nauen Bell Foundry The Olsen Nauen Bell Foundry ( no, Olsen Nauen Klokkestøperi) is a Norwegian bell foundry located in the municipality of Tønsberg. The foundry was established in 1844 by Ole Olsen, and it is headed today by the sixth generation of the Olsen ...

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Kodal Church
at the Church of Norway
Kirkesøk: Kodal Church

Kodal Church
at Kulturminnesøk 12th-century churches in Norway Churches in Vestfold og Telemark Stone churches in Norway