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The Main Parts of a Norway Church
1. Armor house, often also the fundament for the church tower or bell tower of a long-church of stone, stores the main portal to the
building as well. A stave church could have several armor houses.
2. Cross arms (cruciform), usually added to have more room and occasionally built of wood, even though the rest of the church may have been built by stone.
3. Church nave (ship), the main part of the building.
4. Church sanctuary, the inner part which include the alter, and the outer part which include the choir.
5. Apses, several could exist, especially for the wooden stave churches. A semicircular part of a building, often attached to the choir and cross arms of a church.
Common for all kinds of churches.
6. Sacristy, a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept and where the clergy put on their vestments.
7. Tomb, usually built of stone for a person or family who was very close connected to church as a donator. A kind of monumental chamber for a dead person housing his
and/or her remains, even a whole family. Tombs were usually added at a much later stage in the history of the medieval church. |
