# Hesby Church

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Church in Rogaland, Norway

Church in Rogaland, Norway

Hesby Church Hesby kyrkje View of the church Hesby Church 59°10′34″N 5°48′50″E / 59.17622°N 5.81392°E / 59.17622; 5.81392 Location Stavanger Municipality, Rogaland Country Norway Denomination Church of Norway Previous denomination Catholic Church Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran History Status Parish church Founded 11th century Consecrated 11th century Architecture Functional status Active Architectural type Long church Completed c. 1090 Specifications Capacity 230 Materials Stone Administration Diocese Stavanger bispedømme Deanery Tungenes prosti Parish Hesby Norwegian Cultural Heritage Site Type Church Status Automatically protected ID 84567

**Hesby Church** ([Norwegian](/source/Norwegian_language): *Hesby kyrkje*) is a [parish church](/source/Parish_church) of the [Church of Norway](/source/Church_of_Norway) in the large [Stavanger Municipality](/source/Stavanger_Municipality) in [Rogaland](/source/Rogaland) county, [Norway](/source/Norway). It is located in the village of [Hesby](/source/Hesby) on the island of [Finnøy](/source/Finn%C3%B8y_(island)). It is the church for the Hesby [parish](/source/Parish) which is part of the [Tungenes prosti](/source/Tungenes_prosti) ([deanery](/source/Deanery)) in the [Diocese of Stavanger](/source/Diocese_of_Stavanger). The old, stone church was built in a [long church](/source/Long_church) design around the year 1090 using designs by an unknown [architect](/source/Architect). The church seats about 230 people.[1][2]

## History

The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1296, but the church was likely built during the early 12th century. Tradition says that the church was founded in the 1090s. Hesby was the seat of chiefs during the 11th century and during the [Middle Ages](/source/Middle_Ages) was the residence of several notable [Lendmenn](/source/Lendmann). The church walls are about 1-metre (3 ft 3 in) thick. The stone church has a rectangular [nave](/source/Nave) and a narrower, rectangular [chancel](/source/Chancel). A large tower with a [steeple](/source/Steeple) on the west end of the building was removed during the early 1800s.[3]

In 1814, this church served as an [election church](/source/Election_church) ([Norwegian](/source/Norwegian_language): *valgkirke*).[4] Together with more than 300 other parish churches across Norway, it was a polling station for elections to the 1814 [Norwegian Constituent Assembly](/source/Norwegian_Constituent_Assembly) which wrote the [Constitution of Norway](/source/Constitution_of_Norway). This was Norway's first national elections. Each [church parish](/source/Prestegjeld) was a constituency that elected people called "electors" who later met together in each county to elect the representatives for the assembly that was to meet at [Eidsvoll Manor](/source/Eidsvoll_Manor) later that year.[4][5]

## See also

- [List of churches in Rogaland](/source/List_of_churches_in_Rogaland)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Hesby kyrkje"](https://kirkesok.no/kirke/1744). Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 18 October 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker"](http://www.kirkekonsulenten.no/kirker.htm) (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 18 October 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Hesby kyrkjestad"](https://kulturminnesok.no/minne/?queryString=https://data.kulturminne.no/askeladden/lokalitet/84567) (in Norwegian). [Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage](/source/Norwegian_Directorate_for_Cultural_Heritage). Retrieved 18 October 2020.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-lhw_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-lhw_4-1) ["Valgkirkene"](https://lokalhistoriewiki.no/wiki/Valgkirkene). *LokalHistorieWiki.no* (in Norwegian). Retrieved 31 January 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Om valgene"](https://web.archive.org/web/20210624205923/http://1814.arkivverket.no/#about-elections). *Valgene i 1814* (in Norwegian). Arkivverket. Archived from [the original](http://1814.arkivverket.no/#about-elections) on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2021.

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