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Gessie kyrka

Address
Gessie
Municipality
Vellinge Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Lund

Gessie kyrka is a parish church in the village of Gessie, Skåne, serving the Vellinge-Månstorp parish within the Diocese of Lund. Built in the late nineteenth century, it replaced a much older medieval church on the same site.



The present church was consecrated in 1888, replacing a small twelfth-century church that had stood in the village and measured only around eighteen metres in length. Designed by August Waldemar Lundberg in the neo-Gothic style fashionable at the time, it was built in 1887–88 from red brick, with a nave, a five-sided chancel to the east, a sacristy to the north and a tower to the west. The building was restored in 1928.

None of the furnishings from the old medieval church were retained for use in the new building; the entire interior, including the altar, was newly made for the 1888 church. The altar is worked in relief and depicts the Last Supper. Only a few fragments of the old altarpiece and pulpit from the earlier church have survived and are preserved.

The chancel windows are among the church's most distinctive features. They were commissioned from the Bayerische Hofglasmalerei workshop in Munich and depict three scenes in strong, vivid colours, closely following the contemporary German style of stained-glass painting of the period.

A communion vessel dating from 1575 has survived from the earlier church, offering a tangible link to the parish's pre-Reformation past despite the wholesale renewal of the building's fittings in the 1880s.

The church has had a series of organs: an early instrument built in 1843 by Pehr Lund, followed by later organs in 1888 and 1932, and an electric organ used between 1979 and 1988. The current mechanical organ was built in 1988 by A. Mårtenssons Orgelfabrik of Lund, with a newly built facade.

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Gessie kyrka

Gessie kyrka is a parish church in the village of Gessie, Skåne, serving the Vellinge-Månstorp parish within the Diocese of Lund. Built in the late nineteenth century, it replaced a much older medieval church on the same site.

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Provider record updated: 17 Jul 2025. This is not an independent verification date.

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