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Vamlingbo Church ((スウェーデン語:Vamlingbo kyrka)) is a medieval Lutheran church on the Swedish island of Gotland, in the Diocese of Visby. ==History== The earliest church on the site was a stave church, later replaced by a Romanesque stone church. Of these first churches nothing remains, except for some Romanesque reliefs incorporated in the southern wall of the present church, and the baptismal font, made by the master sculptor known as Master Byzantios. The presently visible church is a comparatively large Gothic building, dating from the middle of the 14th century. Only the tower is later, built during the 14th century but heavily damaged by a lightning strike in 1817. The upper part of the tower, including the roof lantern, therefore dates from 1820.〔〔 The church is one of the largest churches on Gotland, which is probably because the large parish was at the time one of the richest on Gotland.〔〔 It is however also possible that the unusual size of the church can be explained by that the church, like Lau Church, may have been used by Dominican monks to preach crusades against pagans in present-day Estonia and Latvia.〔 No major alterations have been made to the church since. Archaeological investigations〔 and a renovation was carried out in 1960 to 1961.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vamlingbo Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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