wait a minute...WIKI has an entirely different image for STAVE CHURCH - what is going on here? We didn't visit the church upon this webpage...we visited the one shown in the POST below...were all of these 'churches' called STAVE?
The funny thing is that I know that the photo below was taken by a member of BRITISH INTELLIGENCE...either in NORWAY or across the border into SWEDEN...he came back with it and put it up - upon the site below...okay having just skimmed the page...I now realised that we were taken to a very 'special STAVE CHURCH' which is similar but 'not the same' as the others shown upon WIKI:
A stave church is a medieval wooden church with a post and beam construction related to timber framing. The wall frames are filled with vertical planks. The load-bearing posts (stafr in Old Norse, stav in Norwegian) have lent their name to the building technique. Related church types are post churches and churches with palisade walls.
All of the surviving stave churches except one are or were in Norway, but related church types were once common all over northwestern Europe. The only remaining medieval stave churches outside Norway are one dating to approximately 1500 located at Hedared in Sweden and one Norwegian stave church that was relocated in 1842 to the outskirts of Krummhübel, Germany, now Karpacz in the Krkonoše mountains of Poland. One other church, the Anglo-Saxon Greensted Church in England, has many similarities but is not universally regarded as a stave church.
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