Moster - The old church

The church is built partly by quarried ashlar and partly by ordinary quarried stone. The west portal in the nave and the south portal in the chancel are simple, with straight lintels. The original window openings were small and high up, with a rounded finish. Two of these windows are still found in the church, but the others were extended to large, rectangular windows in 1732, with decorated panes. Externally the church has a cut sloping stone base. Internally the choir arc has ashlar plinths with cut profiles. In the nave there are still remains of the wall benches from the Middle Ages. The church space is otherwise marked by the interior from the 1600s, the altarpiece is from around 1630, and the pulpit from 1637. The church chairs and the gallery front with the depiction of the apostles are also from the 1600s.

On the walls in the nave we can see remains of early renaissance paintings, probably from the time around 1600, while the decorative painting in the chancel may be from the 1620s. Light, graceful bunches of fruit frame depictions of biblical scenes, which are now all but erased. In the church loft there is a bell from the Middle Ages with an engraved figure of St. Olav and the inscription: “AVE MARIA GRACIA PLENA. DOMINUS TE(C)UM” (Be greeted Virgin Maria, full of grace. May the Lord be with you). A younger bell, now in the parish church, has the inscription “CHRISTO IESU SACRUM HOC DONARIUM EFFERTUR ANTE OMNIA DEUS SIT TIBI CURAE, ANNO 1660” (This holy gift was sacrificed to Jesus Christ. Let the Lord fill your heart more than anything else).