Tingelstad Church ( no, Tingelstad kirke) is a

parish church A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish. In many parts of the world, especially in rural areas, the parish church may play a significant role in community activities, ...

of the Church of Norway in

Gran Municipality is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Hadeland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Jaren. Other villages in Gran include Bjoneroa, Brandbu, Egge, Gran, and ...

Innlandet Innlandet is a county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (the municipalities of Jevnaker and Lunner were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken on the same date). The ...

county,

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. It is located in the village of Tingelstad. It is one of the churches for the Gran/Tingelstad

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one o ...

which is part of the

Hadeland og Land prosti The list of churches in Hamar is a list of the Church of Norway churches in the Diocese of Hamar which includes all of Innlandet county (plus two municipalities in Viken county) in Norway. The list is divided into several sections, one for each ...

( deanery) in the Diocese of Hamar. The red brick church was built in a long church design in 1866 using plans drawn up by the

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Heinrich Ernst Schirmer Heinrich Ernst Schirmer (27 August 1814 – 6 December 1887) was a German-born architect most noted for his work in Norway. Schirmer worked in Norway from 1838 to 1883 and left his mark on a number of public buildings. He contributed significant ...

and

Wilhelm von Hanno Andreas Friedrich Wilhelm von Hanno (15 December 1826 – 12 December 1882) was a German-born Norwegian architect, sculptor and painter. He was among the leading architects in Norway during the middle of the 1800s. Biography Wilhelm von Hanno ...

. The church seats about 450 people.

History

The new church law of 1851 mandated that churches must be large enough to hold at least one-fifth of the population of the parish. The

Old Tingelstad Church Old Tingelstad Church ( no, Tingelstad gamle kirke) is a former parish church of the Church of Norway in Gran Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the village of Tingelstad. It is part of the Gran/Tingelstad parish which is ...

and the Grinaker Stave Church were both too small, so they planned to close both of them and to build a new church at Tingelstad.

and

were hired to design the new building and the masonry was to be done by the mason

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. The old Grinaker Stave Church was torn down and some of the salvageable materials from that building were reused in the new church. On 5 July 1865 the

foundation stone The cornerstone (or foundation stone or setting stone) is the first stone set in the construction of a masonry foundation. All other stones will be set in reference to this stone, thus determining the position of the entire structure. Over tim ...

of the church was laid by the local mayor, Amund Larsen Gulden. On 5 December 1866 the finished church was consecrated by parish priest Søren Brun Bugge on behalf of the bishop. The church cost 9000

speciedaler The rigsdaler specie was a unit of silver currency used in Norway, renamed as the speciedaler in 1816 and used until 1873. Norway used a common reichsthaler currency system shared with Denmark, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein until 1873 when the go ...

. In 1929, the church was wired for electricity.

Inventory

The church has a baptismal font dating from around the year 1720. In the

choir A choir ( ; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which sp ...

, there are two sculptures representing

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and

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dating from the 1720s. The pulpit was transferred from the old Grindaker stave church and was the work of carved by sculptor Nicolai Larsen Borg (1673-1764). Behind the

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is a glass painting with the upper part from 1935 by Borgar Hauglid and the lower part of 1991 by Veslemøy Stoltenberg.

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