It was converted to a cruciform church in 1625; the carved portal and wall planks are original.

Diagonal wall planks add to the nautical feel.

He inserted the broken board between wall planks.

The last wall plank is wedge-shaped and rammed into place.

During the 20th century the church underwent a restoration, and the richly decorated wall planks were covered to stop further deterioration.

The vertical wall planks are often two inches thick and more than ten inches wide and support a roof framing system.

Some of the wall planks had holes in them where their knots had once been.

A wall plank had torn loose from the support post and was dangling at a crazy angle, one end still held by rusty nails.

Only the carved portals and decorative wall planks survived from the original stave church.

All of the external gallery was built with new materials, and every wall plank was replaced.