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Herøy Church
Herøy Church
Herøy kirke
	View of the church
	65°58′23″N 12°16′42″E / 65.97310085°N 12.2782967°E
Location	Herøy Municipality, Nordland
Country	Norway
Denomination	Church of Norway
Previous denomination	Catholic Church
Churchmanship	Evangelical Lutheran
History
Status	Parish church
Founded	12th century
Consecrated	12th century
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Architectural type	Long church
Completed	c. 1150; (875 years ago)
Specifications
Capacity	350
Materials	Stone
Administration
Diocese	Sør-Hålogaland
Deanery	Nord-Helgeland prosti
Parish	Herøy
Norwegian Cultural Heritage Site
Type	Church
Status	Automatically protected
ID	84564

Herøy Church (Norwegian: Herøy kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Herøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Silvalen on the island of Sør-Herøy. It is the main church for the Herøy parish which is part of the Nord-Helgeland prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland. The white, wooden church was built in a long church style in the 12th century using plans drawn up by an unknown architect. The church seats about 350 people.^[1]^[2]

History

The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1432, but the church was originally constructed during the second half of the 1100s. The church has a rectangular nave, a tower to the west, and a narrower choir with a semicircular apse. The choir and apse have a lower roof line than the nave. Research on the building has shown that the choir part is the oldest part of the existing building with the apse and nave built a little later. Originally, the current choir was the stone nave that was attached to a wooden building. The wood building was later torn down and the stone building was expanded. Over the years, the church fell into disrepair. During the early 1400s, the western wall of the church was taken down and the stone nave was shortened by about 4 metres (13 ft) and then a new wall was built. In 1879, the church was enlarged by doubling the length the nave (adding about 10 metres (33 ft) to the nave) and then a new west tower was added on the end of the new nave. In the 1960s, the church was thoroughly renovated by the architect John Egil Tverdahl.^[3]^[4]

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References

^ "Herøy kirke". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
^ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
^ "Herøy kirkested" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
^ "Herøy kirke" (in Norwegian). Herøy kommune. Retrieved 6 October 2018.