Slädene kyrka

The present church owes its existence to Ingegerd Ehn, a missionary who, on returning home in the early 1920s, argued that her home parish needed its own church again. It was built as a chapel in 1923–24, and only became a full parish church in 1957 when Sparlösa and Slädene formed a shared administrative union.

The building was designed by the architect Anders Roland and completed in 1924. It is a timber church standing on a concrete base, with the nave running north–south, a narrower straight chancel to the north, a slim porch to the south, and a sacristy attached to the west of the chancel. The exterior is clad in red-painted vertical timber panelling. The original interior colour scheme, later altered, was restored in a renovation of 2002.

An earlier medieval timber church once stood on the same churchyard site, first documented in 1583. A drawing made around 1710 by the antiquarian Johan Peringskiöld shows it as a shingle-clad wooden building with a separate timber bell tower. That older church was demolished in 1848, when the congregation joined the neighbouring parish in using a newly built church at Sparlösa instead.

The churchyard lies south of the present church, on the site of the old church. Near its south-eastern corner stands a runestone thought to date from the twelfth century, and traces of an Iron Age settlement have been noted nearby. The oldest dated gravestone in the churchyard is a double cross from 1741, alongside flat limestone slabs and wheel-cross memorials from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

A freestanding wooden bell tower in the churchyard houses a medieval bell. Inside the church, the font is also medieval, brought from the earlier building, while the altarpiece was brought from the old church at Long. The organ, built in 1980 by Smedmans Orgelbyggeri, was moved here from Vara kyrka in 2011 and has six stops across manual and pedal.