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Humla kyrka

Address
Blidsberg Prästgården 102
Municipality
Ulricehamns Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Skara

Humla kyrka stands on high ground above the Ätra valley in Ulricehamn municipality, visible from all directions across the village. The present church was consecrated in 1891 on the site of a medieval predecessor, from which several notable furnishings survive.



The medieval stone church that once stood here was demolished in 1889, having stood tornless for centuries above the valley. Its replacement was built between 1889 and 1891 to designs by the architect Fritz Eckert, in a neo-Romanesque style. Unusually, the church is oriented north-south rather than the customary west-east, a decision reportedly forced by the narrow width of the churchyard site.

The interior retains much of its original fitting-out, including a panelled ceiling, open pews and a chancel arch with an inscribed band. The bright colour scheme seen today, however, dates from the 20th century rather than the 1891 build. A renovation in 1949–1950 introduced electric heating in place of the earlier stoves.

Several treasures were carried over from the old medieval church. The sandstone font, carved in the 1100s in two parts, is attributed to the stonemason Andreas, whose signed work also survives on fonts now in the Museum of National Antiquities. A seated oak Madonna figure from the 1400s and a 15th-century Calvary group, later incorporated into a 1688 altar cabinet, are also preserved from the earlier building. A communion chalice has a foot engraved with a crucifix dating to the 1300s, though its other parts are later additions.//A runestone found in the foundations during the old church's demolition now stands in the churchyard.

The current altarpiece, depicting the meeting on the road to Emmaus, was painted in the 1920s by Asta Holmberg, a pupil of Olle Hjortsberg. The pulpit was brought from Dalum church in 1949, having been made in the first half of the 1800s. The church's pneumatic organ dates from 1939.

Of the two bells, the smaller was cast in 1889 and the larger in 1915, both by the Bergholtz foundry. An earlier medieval bell of Romanesque type, removed from the church, was acquired by the Museum of National Antiquities in 1914; it bears runic-style lettering interpreted by some as a Hebrew phrase invoking divine strength, though such readings remain a matter of scholarly interpretation.

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Humla kyrka

Humla kyrka stands on high ground above the Ätra valley in Ulricehamn municipality, visible from all directions across the village. The present church was consecrated in 1891 on the site of a medieval predecessor, from which several notable furnishings survive.

Blidsberg Prästgården 102

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