Norums kyrka

The medieval church here was a vaulted Romanesque stone building with a nave and a narrower chancel, its interior once decorated with frescoes. It was demolished in 1847 to make way for the present, larger church, and only part of the original west wall survives from that earlier structure. The timber tower to the west dates from 1785, replacing an older bell-frame, and was reinforced around the turn of the 21st century when the porch beneath it was extended.

Four bells hang in the tower, two dating from 1926 and two considerably older. One medieval bell, from the late medieval period, is no longer rung but remains in place below the belfry, while a smaller 14th-century bell, decorated with a roughly carved cross and a pilgrim badge showing a bishop or abbot, is still used for thanksgiving ringing.

The church's most remarkable object is its font, carved from mica schist in the 12th century and bearing a runic inscription naming a craftsman called Sven, linking it to a similar font at Kareby church. Its reliefs include serpent and interlace ornament and a scene thought to allude to the Norse legend of Gunnar in the snake pit, alongside a rare Christian motif of two crosses. Discarded as rubbish during the 1847 rebuilding, the font was sold cheaply and became entangled in a curious mid-19th-century episode in which an agent attempted to sell it on to English buyers intending to present it to the British Museum; the sale was ultimately blocked and the font is now held by the Swedish History Museum, with a 1962 copy in the church itself.

Other furnishings include a barque-rigged votive ship model, said by tradition to have been given in the 1760s by a local man in thanks for surviving a shipwreck, and a burial vault built in 1646 for a local landowning judge, which now stands in the middle of the church following the 19th-century extension. The altarpiece is a Baroque work from 1635, and the pulpit dates from the 17th century. The church also contains an 1895 organ with a surviving façade, later rebuilt, and a smaller instrument near the chancel from around 1980.