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Wooden churches in West Virginia (1 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Wooden churches in the United States" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
List of later stave churches and replicas Main article: Stave church Denmark Halmens Cemetery Chapel, Holmens Cemetery, Copenhagen, built in 1902. Hørning Stave Church, Moesgård Museum, Aarhus, reconstruction of an old church. Sweden Hållandsgårdens stave church in Åre, Jämtland, built 1999 Häggviks stave church in Nordingrå, Norrland, built 2000 Kårböle stave church in Ljusdal ...
All wooden churches in Norway before the reformation were constructed with staves. Log building is younger than stave building in Norway, and was introduced in residential buildings around year 1000. Stave building is not influenced by the log technique. [14] [9] Only 29 stave churches have survived in Norway. [15]
Wooden church may refer to: Carpathian wooden churches: Wooden churches of Maramureș, Romania; Wooden churches of the Slovak Carpathians, including three articular churches; Wooden churches of Southern Lesser Poland; Wooden churches in Ukraine; Kizhi Pogost, Kizhi Island, Russia; Wooden Church, Miskolc, Hungary
Ancient wooden church architecture developed under the influence of stone architecture, defense and residential buildings. Already in the pre-Mongol period there were various solutions for the volume and construction of churches, such as square log churches and double log churches with a separate square log choir.
When church building resumed around the year 1600, most stave churches disappeared and were often replaced by log churches. While in most of Europe, only masonry churches were built, wood construction still dominated in Norway. [5] During the 1600s, the cruciform floor plan tended to replace the traditional simple rectangular "long church". In ...
Between the Reformation and modern days, log building was so predominant that some medieval stone churches (such as Søndeled Church and Lunner Church) were enlarged by adding log-built sections. Log buildings are often covered by clapboards concealing the load-bearing structure, one exception is the uncovered logs of Bøverdal Church .
The church is a large, one-story, gablefront log building sheathed in brown-painted wooden German siding. The original hewn log beams are visible beneath the church, with some bark remaining on the logs. The church's interior ceiling measures approximately 15 feet (4.6 metres) in height and is clad in pressed metal panels. Several of its pews ...
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