Ardre kyrka

The church is built of rendered limestone in a simple hall-church form, with a narrower chancel and a straight east wall. Its west tower, dating from the 1200s, is Romanesque in style and topped with a tall spire, while the current copper-clad spire cap replaced an earlier one in 1902. The nave and chancel were completed around 1250, though the sacristy was not added until 1801, with further rebuilding around 1900–1902.

Several fine doorways survive from different periods: a Romanesque portal on the chancel, thought possibly to have come from an older church that also incorporated the tower, along with a simpler Romanesque doorway on the tower's west gable. Two Gothic portals serve the nave, one with a tall gable feature on the south side and a plainer one to the north.

The interior owes much of its present character to a restoration of 1900–1902, carried out to designs by the architect Axel Herman Hägg. This work introduced wall and vault paintings along with new pews, blending Neo-Gothic elements with motifs drawn from the earlier pulpit, itself a creation of the first half of the 1600s.

Among the church's medieval treasures are a triumphal crucifix from around the mid-1200s, a Madonna figure from about 1500, and an altar retable dating to the early 1300s. The three-light chancel window contains stained glass, with three painted panes surviving from around 1300; the remaining glass was created in 1901 by Carl Wilhelm Pettersson. The font dates from the first half of the 1200s.

During the 1900–1902 restoration, workers uncovered the so-called Ardre stones in the church floor, a notable group of Viking Age rune and picture stones. West of the church stand the remains of a medieval defensive tower (kastal), a small square structure whose foundations still survive, alongside the former parish school, now used as a parish hall.

An organ built in 1900 by Åkerman & Lund, with a façade designed by Hägg, is reportedly now in storage; a mechanical organ built in 1990 by J. Künkels Orgelverkstad, with a façade by Ture Jangvik copying Hägg's 1902 design, serves the church today.