Stoksund Church ( no, Stoksund kirke) is a

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of the

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Åfjord Åfjord is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Fosen Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Å, Åfjord, Årne ...

municipality in

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; sma, Trööndelage) is a county in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County ( no, Trondhjems Amt); in 1804 the county was split into Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag by the King of Denmar ...

county,

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. It is located in the village of Revsnes in the

Stoksund Stoksund is a former municipality in the old Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1892 until its dissolution in 1964. The municipality was located in what is now the northwestern part of the municipality of Åfjord in T ...

area of Åfjord. The church is located right at the south end of the

Stokkøy Bridge Stokkøy Bridge ( no, Stokkøybrua) is a concrete cantilever bridge that crosses the Stokksundet strait between the mainland and the island of Stokkøya in the municipality of Åfjord in Trøndelag county, Norway. The bridge starts near the vill ...

from the mainland to the island of

Stokkøya Stokkøya is an island in the municipality of Åfjord in Trøndelag county, Norway. The island is located in the Stoksund area of Åfjord. The largest village on the island is Harsvika. The tall mountain Kamman is the highest point on the i ...

. It is one of two churches in the ''Åfjord og Stoksund''

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which is part of the

Fosen prosti This list of churches in Nidaros is a list of the Church of Norway churches in the Diocese of Nidaros which covers all of Trøndelag county in Norway. The list is divided into several sections, one for each deanery in the diocese. Administra ...

(

deanery A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, the Evangelical Church in Germany, and the Church of Norway. A deanery is either the jurisdiction or residenc ...

) in the

Diocese of Nidaros Nidaros is a diocese in the Lutheran Church of Norway. It covers Trøndelag county in Central Norway and its cathedral city is Trondheim, which houses the well-known Nidaros Cathedral. Since 10 September 2017, the Bishop of Nidaros is Herborg ...

. The red, wooden church was built in a

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style in 1825 using plans drawn up by the

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Christian Ancher Collett Christian Ancher Collett (30 April 1771 – 10 January 1833) was a Norwegian engineer, architect, and building inspector. He was born as the oldest child of Peter Collett and Johanne Henriche Ancher. He had two older half-siblings, Peter Collett a ...

and another unknown architect. The church seats about 200 people.

History

The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1533, but the church was not new that year. The first church here was likely a small chapel that was built during the 14th century. Around the year 1670, the old chapel was torn down and replaced with a new Y-shaped church. By the year 1800, the church was rather dilapidated. In 1819, the local provost requested that the private owners of the church repair it, but they decided to build a new one instead. In 1825, a new church was constructed about northwest of the old church. It was moved to the top of a small hill a little further away from the other farm buildings, presumably to help prevent the spread of fires and give it a more prominent location. The new church had an

octagonal In geometry, an octagon (from the Greek ὀκτάγωνον ''oktágōnon'', "eight angles") is an eight-sided polygon or 8-gon. A '' regular octagon'' has Schläfli symbol and can also be constructed as a quasiregular truncated square, t, whi ...

design that measured which was designed by an unknown local architect who worked with

, a consultant for the Ministry of Church Affairs. It was

consecrate Consecration is the solemn dedication to a special purpose or service. The word ''consecration'' literally means "association with the sacred". Persons, places, or things can be consecrated, and the term is used in various ways by different grou ...

d on 10 July 1825 by Bishop

Peder Olivarius Bugge Peder Olivarius Bugge (2 December 1764 – 6 December 1849) was a Norwegian priest and politician. He was the bishop of the Diocese of Nidaros from 1804 until 1842. Biography Peder Olivarius Bugge was born at Holt in Nedenes county, Norway. ...

. In the 1880s, there was a desire to expand the church that was too cramped for the congregation. In the summer of 1885, the building was extended with square cross arms to the north and south, giving the building a more

design. At the same time the entrance areas in the extension were built, the building got new and larger windows, and the altar was moved into the northern cross arm. The changes in 1885 were planned by architect Ole Falck Ebbell. In the 1950s, the building was in poor condition so the architect

John Egil Tverdahl John Egil Tverdahl (1890 in Trondheim – 1969) was a Norwegian architect. Tverdahl designed many churches as well as led the restoration of several churches that were located in Nordmøre, Trøndelag, and Nordland in northern Norway. Tverdahl ...

prepared plans for a restoration and renovation of the building. During the restoration in 1954-1955, the extensions from 1885 were demolished and completely rebuilt. A new

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was built on the eastern end of the building and the altar was moved back to the eastern part of the

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 ...

References

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History

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