Undrumsdal Church

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Undrumsdal Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in the village of Undrumsdal, Tønsberg Municipality, Vestfold county. It serves the Undrumsdal parish in the Tønsberg deanery, in the Diocese of Tunsberg. The white wooden church you see today was built in 1882 on a site about 400 meters north of the old church. It was designed by architect F. Rasmussen from Horten and can seat about 162 people.

The church has a long history. The first church at Undrumsdal was likely a wooden stave church built in the early 1100s at a place called Rød, about 400 meters south-southwest of the current site. That old church was torn down in 1730 and a new one was built on the same spot. The 1730 church had an octagonal floor plan and was funded partly by the congregation and partly by the Count of Jarlsberg; it was consecrated on 22 September 1730 by Bishop Bartholomæus Deichman. The Count sold the church in 1775, and ownership passed through several hands before the congregation owned it again in 1876. By then the building was in poor condition, so it was decided to build a new church about 400 meters north for better burial ground.

The 1882 church is a wooden long church with a rectangular nave and a chancel of the same width. The choir floor is a little higher than the nave floor, and there is a chancel screen. A sacristy extends east from the chancel. On the west end is a porch with a large tower above it. The church was renovated in 1981 and again in 1998.