Välinge kyrka

Nothing remains visible of the original medieval church, which is thought to have consisted of a chancel, nave and apse. The oldest surviving part of the present building is the tower, added to the medieval church around 1500. In 1855–1856 large sections of the church were demolished and rebuilt, and a sacristy was added on the north side in 1926.

Despite this rebuilding, several older furnishings survive. The pulpit is a Renaissance piece, said by an inscription inside its bowl to have been acquired in 1631; later parish records link its donation to the widow of a local landowner from Rögle estate. Carved female figures representing virtues stand at its corners, with the four evangelists depicted in niches below; a canopy once crowned the pulpit but was later damaged by insect infestation and lost.

The altarpiece, a nineteenth-century copy of Anthonis van Dyck's Entombment of Christ, was painted around 1851 and reinstalled during the 1856 rebuilding. An earlier altarpiece, showing the Crucifixion, is represented today only by a fragment mounted above a doorway. The font is a twentieth-century replacement in limestone, but its older brass basin survives, bearing a inscription and imagery linking it to a seventeenth-century noble donor family connected to Vegeholm and Rögle.

Several striking memorials line the walls near the sacristy entrance, including a late sixteenth-century carved gravestone commemorating members of the Krabbe family of Vegeholm, and a finely sculpted monument to a knight and his wife from the early seventeenth century, both formerly set into the chancel floor. In the tower hangs a votive ship, said to have been donated by a ship's captain in the late eighteenth century, a common feature in churches with maritime connections.

The church bells, candlesticks and chandeliers reflect further generations of gifts: one chandelier is recorded as having left the parish at some point in the nineteenth century before being bought back and returned in 1928. The current organ was built in 1978, replacing earlier instruments from 1875 and 1926.