Fole kyrka

The church replaced an earlier, smaller Romanesque building with an apse, dating to about 1200, of which some foundation walls survive. The tower is the oldest surviving part of the present structure, also built around 1200, while the current chancel and the eastern part of the nave were added around the mid-13th century. A distinct join in the nave walls marks where building work paused before the nave was completed towards the west, a phase possibly linked to the recorded dedication year of 1280.

The exterior is notable for its finely proportioned doorways: a Romanesque portal in the tower and Gothic doorways with triangular gable tops on the south front. Many original features survive, including the south windows, the triple window group in the east wall, and the colonnetted sound openings in the tower. Inside, the whole church is vaulted, with the two-aisled nave's six vaults carried on two columns, and a wide chancel arch opening onto a bright chancel. In the base of the tower, an original spiral staircase leads to the upper levels, and a re-used older doorway in the north wall of the chancel, thought to come from the earliest church, now serves as the entrance to the sacristy.

Among the fittings, a triumphal crucifix from around the mid-13th century hangs in the chancel arch; it was later repainted in the 19th century. The font, carved from limestone around 1200, carries figures in high relief that were repainted in vivid colours in 1707. The altarpiece was painted by Johan Bartsch in 1654, and the pulpit with its sounding board was made in 1751 by Johan Hernell. The pews largely date from the early 18th century, and a Neo-Gothic gallery from 1870 occupies the western end of the nave — one of relatively few such galleries surviving on Gotland.

The organ, built in 1873 by Åkerman & Lund of Stockholm, has a case designed by the architect Johan Fredrik Åbom. In the churchyard stands a probably partly medieval lychgate, and to the east of the church rises one of Gotland's many modern wind turbines, a contrast to the surrounding rectory and school buildings.