Tådene kyrka

The present church was built between 1878 and 1880 to designs by the Gothenburg architect Adrian C. Pettersson (recorded elsewhere as Peterson), replacing an earlier church on the site dating from around the 1200s, parts of which had been rebuilt in 1697. The old church had become too small and dilapidated for the growing parish, and the new building, constructed in cross form with grey stone walls on a granite base, was said to hold over a thousand seats. It was consecrated in September 1880 by Bishop Anders Fredrik Beckman. Construction costs were largely met by the Kjellberg family of merchants from the nearby Storeberg estate, who acted as patrons of the parish.

The neo-Gothic style is carried through consistently in the tall, pointed windows, the plastered walls with decorative pilasters, and the pointed board vault of the ceiling. The colour scheme on the ceiling, walls and pews seen today reflects the original decoration, following a restoration proposal drawn up in the 1960s by the architect Adolf Nicklasson of Skara. The altar is a simple wooden table with a plain wooden cross set on a timber screen, and the pulpit is worked in a nineteenth-century Gothic style with slender columns supporting pointed arches.

Among the furnishings, pew doors salvaged from the demolished medieval church have been mounted as panelling around the walls of the north and south transepts. These are thought to have originally illustrated the Sunday gospel readings of the church year, offering a rare surviving link to the earlier building. The church also holds an oak sculpture of an enthroned Madonna dating from around 1250, brought over from the old church along with other older fittings.

The organ, built in 1880 by E. A. Setterqvist & Son of Örebro, is noted as one of the few unaltered instruments by this maker still found in the diocese. Its cost was met from a fund established decades earlier by an earlier member of the Kjellberg family. The two church bells were recast in 1896, one from a very old, uninscribed bell and the other from a bell cast in Stockholm in 1729, both originally hung in the old church's bell tower.

The church stands within an extensive area of coniferous and deciduous woodland, with gated entrances to the south, west and north. The surrounding churchyard is no longer used for burials and consists of lawns with gravel paths.