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Ausås kyrka

Address
Prästgårdsvägen 42, 26270, STRÖVELSTORP
Municipality
Ängelholms Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Lund

Ausås kyrka is a parish church in the village of Ausås, in Strövelstorp parish, Skåne, within the Church of Sweden's Diocese of Lund. The present building dates largely from the mid-19th century, though it incorporates parts of an earlier medieval structure.



An earlier Romanesque church once stood on this site. The current building was constructed in 1857–58 to a design by the architect Johan Fredrik Åbom, dating from 1848, and was consecrated in November 1859. Notably, the builders retained and incorporated the older medieval church tower into the new structure, giving the building a link to its earlier history.

The church is built of rendered, whitewashed rubble stone and brick, with a rectangular nave, a narrower chancel, the tower to the west, and a three-sided sacristy extension to the east, all under a red tile roof. Inside, the nave ceiling has cross-vaulting, and much of the present interior character reflects a renovation carried out in 1906.

Among the church's furnishings, the font is the oldest surviving object, dating from the 13th century and thought to be the work of the so-called Mörarp Master, a regional medieval stonecarver. Its brass basin was donated to the church towards the end of the 1890s. The pulpit, in a neo-Gothic style, was made in 1858 by a local joiner, O Ekberg of Ausås.

The church has an unusual arrangement of two altarpieces. The current painting dates from 1950, by Gunnar Vallentin of Mölle, while an earlier altarpiece from 1828, depicting Christ in Gethsemane by Alexander Malmqvist, is mounted behind it on a turning mechanism, allowing it to be rotated back into view.

The two bronze church bells date from the 18th century, cast by Andreas Wetterholtz of Malmö — the smaller in 1743 and the larger recast in 1760. The church has had several organs over the years; the present mechanical organ was built in 1985 by Tostareds Kyrkorgelfabrik, though it retains the façade of an earlier 1872 instrument.

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Ausås kyrka

Ausås kyrka is a parish church in the village of Ausås, in Strövelstorp parish, Skåne, within the Church of Sweden's Diocese of Lund. The present building dates largely from the mid-19th century, though it incorporates parts of an earlier medieval structure.

Prästgårdsvägen 42, 26270, STRÖVELSTORP

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