Vallset Church

{{short description|Church in Innlandet, Norway}} {{Infobox church |name = Vallset Church |full_name = Vallset kirke |former_name = Tomter kirke |image = Vallset kirke.jpg |caption = View of the church |website = |coordinates = {{coord|60.70123069550|11.32856860756|region:NO_type:landmark|display=inline,title|format=dms}} |location = [[Stange Municipality]],<br />[[Innlandet]] |country = [[Norway]] |churchmanship = [[Evangelical Lutheran]] |denomination = [[Church of Norway]] |previous_denomination = [[Catholic Church]] |diocese = [[Diocese of Hamar|Hamar bispedømme]] |deanery = [[Hamar domprosti]] |parish = Vallset |status = [[Parish church]] |functional_status = Active |founded = 16th century |consecrated = 25 September 1850 |completed = {{Start date and age|p=y|1850}} |closed = |events = |architect = Capt. Frisak |architectural_type = [[Churches in Norway#Floor plan|Cruciform]] |style = |materials = Wood |capacity = 350 |embedded = {{Norwegian Cultural Heritage Site |embed = yes |Type = Church |Status = Automatically protected |ID = 85752 }} }}

'''Vallset Church''' ({{langx|no|Vallset kirke}}) is a [[parish church]] of the [[Church of Norway]] in [[Stange Municipality]] in [[Innlandet]] county, [[Norway]]. It is located in the village of [[Vallset]]. It is the church for the Vallset [[parish]] which is part of the [[Hamar domprosti]] ([[deanery]]) in the [[Diocese of Hamar]]. The white, wooden church was built in a [[Churches in Norway#Floor plan|cruciform]] design in 1850 using plans drawn up by Capt. Erik Glørsen Frisak.<ref name="NK" /> The church seats about 350 people.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vallset kirke |url=https://kirkesok.no/kirke/041700301 |access-date=2022-01-04 |publisher=Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker |url=http://www.kirkekonsulenten.no/kirker.htm |access-date=2022-01-04 |publisher=KirkeKonsulenten.no |language=Norwegian}}</ref>

==History== The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1520, but that was not the year the church was built. The first church in Vallset was a wooden [[long church]] that was likely built in the early 1500s as an [[annex chapel]] to the main [[Romedal Church]]. The original church was also known as Tomter Church ({{langx|no|Tomter kirke}}). Not much is known about this first building. By the mid-1800s, the church was in need of replacement. Captain Erik Glørsen Frisak was hired to design the new church and Thomas Aasen and Ole Bækken were hired as the lead builders. The new building was a [[half-timbered]] [[cruciform]] church with a tower on the west end. The new building was [[consecrated]] on 25 September 1850. In 1874, the church was given exterior wood paneled siding to cover up the logs used to construct the building. Also, a new spire was added to the tower. The church was restored around the year 1950. During this restoration, the timber walls were uncovered by removing the old wall paneling. Also some of the old furniture ([[altarpiece]] and [[pulpit]]) that had been hidden in the attic was moved back into the [[nave]] and [[chancel]].<ref name="kms">{{Cite web |title=Vallset kirkested |url=http://www.kulturminnesok.no/kulturminnesok/kulturminne/?LOK_ID=85752 |access-date=2022-01-04 |publisher=[[Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage]] |language=Norwegian}}</ref><ref name="NK">{{Cite web |title=Vallset kirke |url=https://www.norske-kirker.net/home/hedmark/vallset-kirke/ |access-date=2022-01-04 |website=Norges-Kirker.no |language=Norwegian}}</ref>

==Media gallery== <gallery mode="packed" heights="180px"> Vallset kirke TRS.jpg Vallset kirke innvendig.jpg Prekestol Vallsetkrk.jpg Alter Vallsetkrkt.jpg </gallery>

==See also== *[[List of churches in Hamar]]

==References== {{reflist}}

[[Category:Stange Municipality]] [[Category:Churches in Innlandet]] [[Category:Cruciform churches in Norway]] [[Category:Wooden churches in Norway]] [[Category:19th-century Church of Norway church buildings]] [[Category:Churches completed in 1850]] [[Category:16th-century establishments in Norway]]