Hönsäters kapell

The chapel owes its existence to Hellekis Aktiebolag, the company that ran a cement works at Hönsäter. Having decided to appoint a parish deacon for its employees, the company's board initially planned to build a modest meeting hall so workers would not have to travel to Österplana church. Factory workers then asked for a nearby burial ground, prompting the company to build a proper chapel with an adjoining churchyard instead. Construction took place in 1912–1913 to designs by the architect Lars Kellman, and the chapel was consecrated in 1913. When Hellekis AB was absorbed into Skånska Cementaktiebolaget that same year, the new owners donated the completed chapel to Österplana parish (the chapel now belongs to Kinnekulle församling).

The building is constructed of local limestone, with an elongated octagonal nave and a sacristy and porch set on opposite sides. The lower part of the interior walls is faced with brick, and the portal, altar table and chancel floor are made of polished Kinnekulle limestone. A bell came from the Beckman & Co foundry in Stockholm; the original chamber organ was supplied by the Herrljunga organ works, though the instrument now in use was acquired in 1974 from the Hammarberg organ builders in Gothenburg.

Much of the chapel's most striking furnishing history predates the building itself by centuries. The altarpiece is assembled from carved elements and sculptures salvaged from the altar of the old Österplana church, demolished in the 1870s. Several of these pieces are linked to a mid-17th-century restoration of that older church carried out on the initiative of General Harald Stake, owner of the Hönsäter estate, who also donated many of the objects himself. Sources differ slightly on the central crucifix figure: one account describes an ivory carving in an early Renaissance style dating from the 1400s, while another attributes the reclining and seated figures on the altarpiece to the mid-1600s restoration period. Two carved guardian saints flank the altar on the end wall, one apparently older than the other and shown in a nun's habit.

The wooden font, also a gift from General Stake, is topped with six carved herms on its lid. Accounts differ on the metal of its basin: one source describes it as bronze, another as brass. The basin's interior bears a relief of the Annunciation surrounded by a minuscule inscription, while its rim carries small punched ornaments and two engraved coats of arms thought not to be Swedish. The font is generally considered a Nuremberg work, most likely from the 15th century. Processional banners connected with the Stake family, carried at Harald Stake's funeral in 1678, are also kept in the chapel.