Källna kyrka is a red-brick parish church in Klippans kommun, Skåne, serving Östra Ljungby församling within the Church of Sweden's Lund diocese. Built in 1870-71 to replace an older church by the Rönne river, it stands on a fresh site nearby.
The medieval predecessor church stood about 1.5 kilometres south of the present site, beside the Rönne å. It had a nave and an extended, straight-ended chancel, whitewashed walls, a roof of iron and copper plate, and a west tower added in 1824. Its interior featured masonry cross vaults over the older sections and a timber barrel vault over the eastern extension. In 1870 this older building was demolished to its foundations and its furnishings sold at auction, though the font, two bells, a basin and a cabinet were transferred to the new church.
The present church, built of red brick to designs by the architect Ludvig Hedin, was consecrated on the second Sunday of Advent 1871 by Bishop Wilhelm Flensburg. It has a long, narrow nave with a five-sided apse to the east and a square west tower, the whole roof covered in copper plate. An internal restoration took place around 1939-40 under the architect Oscar Persson.
Among the church's furnishings, the sandstone font dates from the 1250s, making it by far the oldest object in the building, and it is paired with a brass font basin from the 1600s. A church bell cast in 1480 has been on loan from Helsingborg museum and displayed in the porch since 1979. Sources differ slightly on the church bells generally: one account describes a large bell cast in Halmstad in 1637 and a smaller one recast in Ystad in 1938 after a medieval bell had cracked.
The altarpiece, painted in 1959 by Erik Lindholm, is described by one source simply as depicting Jesus, while another gives its subject as a New Testament miracle story and notes that it now hangs on the south wall of the nave rather than at the altar, a gilded cloverleaf cross from 1873 having been returned to that position. The octagonal pulpit is contemporary with the church itself, but was lowered during the 1939 restoration and fitted with painted panels showing Jesus and the four evangelists.
The church has had at least two organs: a four-stop instrument built in 1879 by Anders Victor Lundahl of Malmö, later replaced in 1961 by a mechanical organ from the Frederiksborg workshop in Hillerød, Denmark, which remains in use.
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Källna kyrka is a red-brick parish church in Klippans kommun, Skåne, serving Östra Ljungby församling within the Church of Sweden's Lund diocese. Built in 1870-71 to replace an older church by the Rönne river, it stands on a fresh site nearby.
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