Davik Church

Davik Church
Davik kyrkje
Davik Church Location in Sogn og Fjordane county Davik Church Location in Sogn og Fjordane county
61°53′32″N 5°31′56″E / 61.8921°N 5.5323°ECoordinates: 61°53′32″N 5°31′56″E / 61.8921°N 5.5323°E
Location	Bremanger Municipality, Sogn og Fjordane
Country	Norway
Denomination	Church of Norway
Churchmanship	Evangelical Lutheran
Website	Davik Church
History
Consecrated	6 July 1886
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Architect(s)	Georg Andreas Bull
Style	Langkyrkje (Long Church)
Completed	1886
Specifications
Materials	Wood
Administration
Parish	Davik
Deanery	Nordfjord prosti
Diocese	Diocese of Bjørgvin

Davik Church (Norwegian: Davik kyrkje) is a parish church in Bremanger Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located in the village of Davik. The church is part of the Davik parish in the Nordfjord deanery in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The church, with a seating capacity of 500, is a wooden "long church". It was consecrated on 6 July 1886 by the Bishop Fredrik Waldemar Hvoslef. The architect Georg Andreas Bull made the designs.^[1][2] The church was built near the site of a previous cruciform church which had become too small for the congregation. There was some controversy as to where the new (present) church was to be built. Many wanted the church to be built on the other side of the Nordfjorden, but the people on the south side protested, and it was finally decided to build the new church near the old church.^[3]

Building

The church itself is not particularly long, but it is unusually wide. Before the pipe organ was installed in the gallery in 1933, the church could seat 700 people. Davik Church is thus one of the biggest in the county. The chancel and the nave are partitioned only by a low balustrade, and have the same width as the porch. The square chancel has permanent benches along the side walls. The pew seats are painted blue, and otherwise oak-coloured with individual numbers for the various farms and families. The slanted ceiling in the nave and chancel are painted white, but towards the side walls of the nave, the ceiling is lowered and flat. The church room has columns supporting the gallery as well as functioning as roof supports to the sides. Along the walls there are five pointed-arch windows on either side, with green and red top sections. The altar rail is oval with a white-painted balustrade, similar to the low chancel partition. The usual vestries are located behind the chancel. On the western wall is the spacious porch with stairways on either side leading up to the gallery. In the corners of the porch there are small rooms with toilet facilities.^[3]

The steeple is placed on the roof ridge itself. The turret base is square, the steeple is octagonal and the spire is covered with copper. The impression of an unusually big and fine church is strengthened precisely because of its wide west wall and the pure, elegant lines in the architecture.^[3]

References

1. "Davik kyrkje". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
2. "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
3. "Davik Kyrkje" (in Norwegian). Sogn og Fjordane Fylkesarkiv. Retrieved 2013-11-01.