Fågeltofta kyrka

The church was originally dedicated to St Peter and known as Sankt Petri kyrka. Its nave was built wider than the chancel and apse, a Romanesque arrangement that survives largely unchanged, along with parts of the original oak roof structure. Around 1400 a star vault was added, said locally to have been financed by Queen Margaret, and wall paintings from the same period were created, though these were later limewashed over and only fragments remain.

A fifteenth-century extension to the north, originally a porch known as the Bondrum church, later became the sacristy; its name is linked to lime production in the nearby village of Bodrum, and it once provided extra seating as the local population grew. The west tower was completed in 1818, apparently replacing an earlier free-standing bell frame, though the tower's ground floor was absorbed into the church interior rather than serving as an entrance, which continued through the old porch.

The pulpit and its canopy date from the early 1600s and carry carved heraldic shields linked to successive owners of Kronovall Castle, the church's patrons, including the Sinclair, Kaas, von Essen and Palmcreutz families. According to Wikipedia, the pulpit was restored in the 1760s following a bequest from a court official at Bjäresjöholm, with relatives of the family covering the cost of transporting it away and back; the same source notes an altarpiece from the same bequest, consecrated in 1766, though this is not mentioned in the other source and its current presence in the church is unconfirmed here. Kronovall Castle itself passed through several noble families, including the Banér and Sparre lines, before being donated to a foundation connected with the House of Nobility, which still owns the estate.

The font is Romanesque, dating from the 1100s, with a brass basin from the earlier seventeenth century engraved with four noble coats of arms. A medieval Madonna sculpture, once part of a Marian altar in the church, was returned to display in the 1970s after some years away. The church's oldest bell, from the 1200s, curiously bears a relief of St Nicholas rather than St Peter; how it came to Fågeltofta is unknown, since the parish records were destroyed by fire in the early 1700s. A smaller bell was cast in Ystad in 1932.

The present altar, of red brick with a limestone slab, and a stained-glass window by artist Martin Sjöblom, date from a substantial renovation in the mid-twentieth century. The current pipe organ was built in 1952 by Mårtensson's organ workshop in Lund, retaining the façade of an earlier instrument. In the north-west corner of the churchyard, near the entrance, a brick burial chamber holds members of the families associated with Kronovall Castle, including a count who died in 1817 and his wife who died decades later.