We're looking at the white plastered wall of a church and a small, fairly simple door set into it. Sunlight bathes the top of the wall and makes it shine but shadows from the leaves of a nearby tree dapple most of what we're looking at. The door is recessed and up one step, surrounded by the shallow extension of square-form pillars that then form a Romanesque arch over the top. The door itself is warm, heavy wood and a simple form of two vertical panels almost identical in size and undecorated. An old bronze handle with a lock set above it is on the right side of the door. Within the arched section above the door the plastered surface has been engraved with the Agnus Dei symbol of a lamb holding a cross with a few thick stars set in the air around it.
A simple, wooden door for #DoorsDay but in an interesting place. This is a side entrance for the priest in Giske Church, Norway's only marble church, although covered over with plaster and chalk. The church dates to the twelfth century and the island and family […]
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