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Grytnäs kyrka

Address
Kyrkbyvägen 1, 774 92, Avesta
Municipality
Avesta Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Västerås

Grytnäs kyrka is a medieval parish church in the village of Grytnäs, Dalarna, part of Avesta-Grytnäs parish within the Diocese of Västerås. Its stone walls date back to the 1300s, making it one of the older surviving churches in the region.



The church was built as a stone structure sometime in the fourteenth century, originally covered with a timber roof. During the following century this was replaced with brick vaulting, giving the nave the vaulted ceiling still seen today. The building was further enlarged in the eighteenth century, with the current chancel added in 1730 and the tower raised in 1794.

A restoration in 1980–81 introduced a gallery at the west end. Its parapet is decorated with carved figures of the evangelists and apostles, taken from a pulpit originally made in the seventeenth century, giving these older woodcarvings a continued place in the church interior.

Several fittings recall the building's medieval origins. The font is thought to date from the Middle Ages, as do the communion vessels and paten still kept in the church. Above the entrance to the sacristy hangs a medieval processional crucifix, a striking survival from the church's earliest centuries. The present pulpit, by contrast, is a later addition, made in 1845.

The organ in the west gallery was built in 1982–83 by the Magnusson organ workshop in Gothenburg, and incorporates nine stops salvaged from an earlier instrument built in 1876 by P L Åkerman, linking the current organ to the church's nineteenth-century musical history.

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Grytnäs kyrka

Grytnäs kyrka is a medieval parish church in the village of Grytnäs, Dalarna, part of Avesta-Grytnäs parish within the Diocese of Västerås. Its stone walls date back to the 1300s, making it one of the older surviving churches in the region.

Kyrkbyvägen 1, 774 92, Avesta

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Sources & credits

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: 16 Jan 2026. This is not an independent verification date.

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