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Högeruds kyrka

Address
Högeruds kyrka, Högerud
Municipality
Arvika Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Karlstad

Högeruds kyrka is a 19th-century parish church in Arvika, Värmland, built after an earlier wooden church of 1646 became too small for a growing population. The present stone church has served the community since its consecration in 1867.



By the 1850s the parish had grown to nearly 1,000 people, and the old timber church, dating from the mid-1600s, could no longer cope. It was decided to replace it entirely, building anew roughly 300 metres from the original site. A memorial stone now marks where the earlier wooden church once stood.

The new stone church was designed by Johan Fredrik Åbom, an architect attached to the Överintendentsämbetet (the national office of royal building works), and was consecrated on 20 October 1867. It follows the light, spacious style favoured at the time, with a rectangular nave, a straight-walled chancel of the same width to the east, and a sacristy to the north of it. Large round-arched windows and a slate-clad saddle roof give the exterior a restrained, orderly character, while the west tower is topped by a lantern with a pointed spire and glazed, leaded windows. The exterior has remained largely unchanged since the 19th century.

A thorough interior renovation took place in 1956–57, led by the court architect Ragnar Jonsson. During this work, a new wooden ceiling was built above the original plastered vault, and the church's original pulpit, altarpiece and three large painted and leaded chancel windows were removed. In their place, older furnishings recovered from the earlier wooden church were reinstalled, including a late Baroque altarpiece and pulpit carved in 1740 by Isak Schullström, a sculptor much employed across Värmland at the time. These two pieces remain among the most distinctive furnishings in the church today.

Other fittings include a font acquired for the church in 1916. The organ, built in 1890 by E A Setterquist & Son of Örebro, is a modest mechanical instrument in a classicist style typical of its period, with six stops and a pedal division permanently coupled to the manual.

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Stavnäs-Högeruds församling

Högeruds kyrka

Högeruds kyrka is a 19th-century parish church in Arvika, Värmland, built after an earlier wooden church of 1646 became too small for a growing population. The present stone church has served the community since its consecration in 1867.

Högeruds kyrka, Högerud

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Provider catalogue data: Svenska kyrkan, Platser, CC BY 4.0. Separately credited descriptions retain their stated source and licence terms. Catalogue and visiting data reformatted from the provider. The English guide combines and abridges separately credited sources below.

Provider record updated: 13 Oct 2025. This is not an independent verification date.

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