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Huddunge kyrka

Address
Huddunge kyrkväg 16, 744 92, Huddunge
Municipality
Heby kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Uppsala

Huddunge kyrka is a rural parish church in western Uppland, built between 1798 and 1800 in the restrained late Gustavian style. Standing in Huddunge, in what is now Heby kommun, it replaced an earlier medieval stone church whose ruins survive nearby.



The present church was built under master builder Eric Sjöström, to designs attributed to architect Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz. Although usable from 1800, it was not formally consecrated until 1807, by Bishop Jacob Axelsson Lindblom, and the interior fittings—galleries and pews—were reportedly not finished until around 1826. The building is a plain rectangular hall church with a straight-ended chancel, a west tower with a shallow domed roof and lantern, and an attached sacristy, its rough stone walls covered in render and pierced by round-arched windows.

On the same site stood two earlier churches: a probable timber building, followed by a medieval stone church dating from the late 1200s or early 1300s. A surviving 18th-century sepia drawing, kept in the sacristy, depicts that earlier whitewashed stone church with its steep black shingle roof. Declared unfit for use by the late 1700s, it was demolished once the new church was under way, and its remains were later consolidated into a preserved ruin with walls in places over two metres thick.

Several fittings were carried over from the old church, including a life-sized medieval triumphal crucifix, carved with an oak Christ figure on a pine cross, said to be the church's oldest furnishing. After periods on the gallery and later stored away in the tower, it was conserved in 1939 and hung on the south wall of the chancel. The pulpit, in Renaissance style and probably dating from the 1600s, was reworked in 1705 with added figures of the Virgin Mary and the four evangelists; these were later removed in 1939 to restore what is thought to be the pulpit's original decorative scheme of flower urns, with the removed carvings then displayed together as a single panel.

Other notable objects include a font of Gotland limestone from 1950, an altarpiece painted in 1905 by Karl Sjöström, and a set of church silver spanning the 18th century, among it a wafer box and a jug attributed to named Stockholm and Uppsala silversmiths. A gilded bridal crown, first recorded in 1688 and later reworked, is decorated with coloured stones and cast angel heads. Two bells hang in the tower, the older said to date from 1589 and later recast, alongside a replacement bell from the early 1800s.

The church has had at least two organs: an earlier instrument from 1839, restored in the 2010s and still preserved behind the gallery, and the current mechanical organ installed in 1956 during a broader renovation of the interior.

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Facilities & accessibility

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  • Toilet
  • Hearing loop

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Huddunge kyrka

Huddunge kyrka is a rural parish church in western Uppland, built between 1798 and 1800 in the restrained late Gustavian style. Standing in Huddunge, in what is now Heby kommun, it replaced an earlier medieval stone church whose ruins survive nearby.

Huddunge kyrkväg 16, 744 92, Huddunge

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Provider catalogue data: Svenska kyrkan, Platser, CC BY 4.0. Separately credited descriptions retain their stated source and licence terms. Catalogue and visiting data reformatted from the provider. The English guide combines and abridges separately credited sources below.

Provider record updated: 9 Jun 2022. This is not an independent verification date.

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Church data retrieved 24 Sep 2026. Visiting details have not been independently verified.

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