Anderslövs kyrka

The church was built during the great Romanesque church-building period of the twelfth century, and a first tower is thought to have followed roughly a hundred years later. It may stand on an older sacrificial or burial site: a mound in the churchyard, possibly a Bronze or Iron Age burial mound, still survives nearby. The medieval nave, chancel and apse remain part of the present building, though the two transepts were added later, in 1767 and 1841, as the growing congregation outgrew the original space. Sources differ slightly on the tower's history: one account credits the present tower to a sixteenth-century rebuilding, while another dates the current spire to a reconstruction after an 1869 fire.

That 1869 fire followed a lightning strike on the tower, which destroyed both the roof and the bells. The spire was rebuilt in 1871, reportedly taller than its predecessor with royal permission, and the church's pointed medieval windows were changed to round-headed ones at the same time. The two bronze bells were cast that same year at O.L. Lindahl's foundry in Öslöv, the larger one partly from metal salvaged from the earlier bells.

Inside, the vaults carry limewash paintings attributed to the Snårestad group, dated to around the 1350s and uncovered during restoration work in 1930 under the cathedral architect Theodor Wåhlin. Above the triumphal arch is a Majestas Domini scene showing Christ enthroned on a rainbow as ruler of the world, flanked faintly by depictions including the Archangel Michael weighing souls. The chancel vault shows further scenes from the life of Christ, including the Three Kings and the Ascension, all set within dense decorative ornament.

The oak altarpiece, in a neo-Gothic style, dates from 1891 and was designed by Henrik Sjöström, with a crucifix flanked by reliefs of a chalice and ears of wheat symbolising the Eucharist. The font, made of cement in the 1890s, was harshly criticised at the time by a cathedral architect for lacking the dignity expected of such an object, though cement fonts of this kind were fashionable in the period, and a similar example exists at Södra Åkarp. The richly carved oak pulpit, attributed to Jacob Kremberg around 1630, has been repaired and added to more than once; older fragments removed from it, including a carved relief, now hang on the church wall. The organ on the south gallery was built by Olof Hammarberg of Gothenburg and inaugurated in 1951, replacing an 1867 instrument by Johan Nikolaus Söderling.