Rävinge kyrka is a whitewashed medieval church in Rävinge, part of Getinge-Rävinge parish in the Diocese of Gothenburg, Halland. Built in stages from the 1100s onward, it holds a rare surviving Calvary group and hidden 18th-century ceiling paintings rediscovered decades later.
The oldest parts of the church are thought to date from the 1100s, though it has been altered and extended repeatedly over the centuries. It is built of grey stone with a whitewashed finish. An earlier wooden tower erected in 1672 stood until 1759, when it was replaced by a stone tower at the west end, later given a wooden upper section rebuilt in 1867. The nave itself was extended eastward in 1824, gaining a semicircular chancel end.
A thorough restoration took place in 1903, overseen by a local building committee. Walls that had bulged and bowed were straightened and replastered, floors and pews were renewed, and new windows and a porch-like extension to the sacristy were added. The interior was repainted in soft tones broken with blue, red and gold, and the altar, pulpit, organ case and gallery front were finished in cream with decorative touches. This scheme covered older painted surfaces, including ceiling paintings from 1774 by the painter Johan Blomberg, which had already been overpainted grey and then white during the 1800s. It was not until 1952 that conservator Thorbjörn Engblad uncovered and restored Blomberg's original ceiling paintings, also adding a complementary painting in Blomberg's style on the chancel ceiling.
The pulpit, carved in oak in Renaissance style in the 1620s, is decorated with painted images of the four evangelists and their symbolic attributes. The altarpiece, also oak and dating from the 1640s, follows Renaissance design with three tiers and a crown, its centrepiece a large painting by Johan Blomberg from 1774 depicting the Crucifixion. The numeral boards and probably the gallery front are likewise attributed to Blomberg's brush.
Among the church's older treasures is a triumphal crucifix from around 1500, hanging on the south wall of the nave, and a carved oak Calvary group from the 1500s depicting Mary and John at the cross — said to be the only such group surviving in Halland. A wooden trumpeting angel from the 1700s hangs from the ceiling, and the tower holds a single bell cast in 1764.
The church's oak font dates from 1935, the work of sculptor Erik Nilsson of Harplinge. The organ has been rebuilt more than once, with instruments recorded from 1791, 1907 and 1940, the current mechanism restored in 2015.
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Getinge-Rävinge församling
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Rävinge kyrka is a whitewashed medieval church in Rävinge, part of Getinge-Rävinge parish in the Diocese of Gothenburg, Halland. Built in stages from the 1100s onward, it holds a rare surviving Calvary group and hidden 18th-century ceiling paintings rediscovered decades later.
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