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Jälluntofta kyrka

Address
314 52, Unnaryd
Municipality
Hylte Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Växjö

Jälluntofta kyrka is a parish church in the small settlement of Jälluntofta in Hylte municipality, Halland county, within the historic province of Småland. It belongs to Unnaryd parish in the Diocese of Växjö and dates from the early 1860s.



The present church was built between 1860 and 1862 on the site of an earlier medieval church, which had itself been enlarged during the eighteenth century. Since its construction, the building has remained largely unchanged both outside and inside, offering visitors a rare chance to see a nineteenth-century Swedish country church essentially in its original form.

The exterior is a simple whitewashed nave with a saddle roof, topped by a tower with a black-painted open lantern, a small curved cupola and a cross. Inside, the plan is rectangular with a semicircular chancel and a sacristy to the east. The floor is laid in grey-white timber, and the colour scheme throughout—light grey, yellow, white and gold—closely follows the original decoration.

Among the furnishings, parts of the older church's seventeenth-century pulpit survive alongside the newer pulpit of 1861, carved by Joel Spitz of Kållerstad. The altarpiece, painted in 1863 by Bengt Nordenberg, depicts the Resurrection of Christ and was based on a composition also found in Kungsholm Church in Stockholm. The font is a single block of sandstone carved with simple figures of animals and people, a modest but striking survival from an earlier era.

Other notable items include three iron-bound chests from the eighteenth century, a black chasuble dated 1791, and a sword said to have belonged to the Gyllenbåga family. Two church bells were cast in 1893. The organ gallery retains decorative screenwork and gilding attributed to the ornamental painter Ivar Andersson of Halmstad, who also worked on other painted and gilded features in the interior.

The church's first pipe organ was built in 1873–74 by Johannes Andersson of Långaryd. The current mechanical organ, installed in 1963 by Ingvar Johansson at the Västbo Orgelbyggeri workshop in Långaryd, retains the older organ case front, a detail organ enthusiasts may appreciate.

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Jälluntofta kyrka

Jälluntofta kyrka is a parish church in the small settlement of Jälluntofta in Hylte municipality, Halland county, within the historic province of Småland. It belongs to Unnaryd parish in the Diocese of Växjö and dates from the early 1860s.

314 52, Unnaryd

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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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