The Olav-church ruin
Type:Church
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7 reviewsThe church was probably about four feet longer than the ruins suggests, and was Telemark's largest stone church in earlier times.
It had a number of unusual building features, including lektorium and a separate room for worldly goods, which today is called "the Maria Chapel".
Probably the church was the main church in Grenland, a kind of "county church", and had probably the highest status of all churches in the area.
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