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The warm colours ranging from dark red and russet to yellow, green, grey and black are distinctive. Another typical feature is the expressionless faces of the sleepy-eyed people, turned to the left or right while their bodies face the front. All the images, including the surrounding stonework, are
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The church's original 7 m high nave dates back to the second half of the 13th century. The cross vaults in the nave were added around 1300. In about 1500, the porch and tower were completed and the choir was built around 1660. In 1825, the church was bought by the
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were hidden under a covering of plaster. After frescos had been discovered at the end of the 19th century in Møn's
Elmelunde Church, those in Fanefjord were painstakingly uncovered from 1932 to 1934 under the guidance of the
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208:Church's interior after restoration
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