There is a finely polished stone, with a cross carved into it placed in a small room or niche located on the outside of the eastern chancel wall. The cross has two arms and is called a patriarch’s cross or an archbishop’s cross. Somewhere in history, the original marble stone was crushed and the niche was plastered.
In 1975, Mr. Auden Nedal restored the niche by placing a new marble stone in front of the old one; a cross was carved into this stone replicating the original. During Catholic times, people would stop and cross themselves in worship and in prayer. The Tingvoll church had been a Catholic Church for close to 400 years.
The Patriarc cross