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Brismene kyrka

Address
Brismene kyrka
Municipality
Falköpings Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Skara

Brismene kyrka is a parish church in the Kinneved parish area of Skara diocese, in the south-west of Falköping municipality in Västra Götaland. Built in the 1860s, it stands on the site of an earlier medieval church and holds a number of older furnishings.



The present church was built in 1863 to designs by the architect Per Ulrik Stenhammar. Sources differ slightly on when it was painted internally: one record gives 1871, another 1971, so the exact decorative history is uncertain. It replaced a medieval church on the same site, which no longer survives.

Despite its comparatively modest 19th-century structure, the church preserves several much older objects. A carved oak Madonna figure dating from the 1200s survives, though damaged, with the face and part of the crown missing and only traces of its original colour remaining. There is also a smaller 15th-century oak group, once part of an altar cabinet, showing Mary, the Christ child and Joseph, again with its paintwork long since lost. The font is considerably older still, dating from the 1100s, its bowl decorated with rope-moulded bands and reliefs.

The communion silver includes a chalice said to date from the mid-1500s, a notable survival among the church's furnishings. The pulpit, by contrast, is a local 18th-century work carved with figures of Christ and the apostles, and the altar group in the chancel depicts a Golgotha scene from the 1770s.

The church's smaller bell is medieval and uninscribed, of a type comparable to the dated 1228 bell at Saleby church, making it one of the older objects associated with the building. According to the parish's own account, the larger bell cracked under unexplained circumstances at Christmas 1988 and was replaced the following year; the old, cracked bell is said to be kept on display in the church porch. The tower was reportedly renovated and altered in 1991.

The organ, on the south-west gallery, was built in 1954 by Tostareds Kyrkorgelfabrik and has nine stops across two manuals and pedal, with a working façade.

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Brismene kyrka

Brismene kyrka is a parish church in the Kinneved parish area of Skara diocese, in the south-west of Falköping municipality in Västra Götaland. Built in the 1860s, it stands on the site of an earlier medieval church and holds a number of older furnishings.

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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: 8 Jun 2022. This is not an independent verification date.

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