Orlunda kyrka

The church visitors see today dates from the late nineteenth century, but the site has a much older history. Before 1890 an earlier medieval church stood at Orlunda, and it is that older building which was recorded in some detail by the Swedish antiquarian C. G. Brunius, who passed through the area in 1849. His account, later published, describes a modest stone church consisting of a square west tower, a two-bay nave with cross vaults, a smaller vaulted chancel, and a rounded eastern apse with a domed vault, along with a porch and a vaulted sacristy on the north side of the chancel.

According to that nineteenth-century description, the old church's walls were built largely of hewn limestone, apart from the later porch and sacristy, which combined rough stone outer walls with brick inside. The vaulted ceilings were also later additions, built partly of limestone rubble and partly of brick, while several of the window openings with pointed arches were said to be considerably younger than the building itself. Traces of painted images of saints were reportedly visible on the vault of the apse, and the tower was topped by a tall spire that shifted in plan from a square to an octagonal form.

That older building was demolished to make way for the current neo-Gothic church, completed in 1890 to a cross-shaped, centralised plan by Carl Möller, an architect associated with several substantial Swedish church commissions of the period. The description of the new church as "cathedral-like" reflects its scale and ambition relative to the plain rural church it replaced.

The church contains a mechanical organ built in 1903 by the Åkerman & Lund workshop of Sundbybergs köping, with a case dating from the same year. It remains one of the more distinctive furnishings associated with the building, though details of the instrument's specification are of more interest to organ specialists than general visitors.