Myresjö gamla kyrka

The church was built in the mid-1100s in Romanesque style, with a nave, chancel and semi-circular apse. It belongs to the so-called Njudunga group of churches, built by masons from the region who are said to have gained their skills helping to construct Lund Cathedral, completed in the 1140s. Tradition credits a master builder known as the "Njudunga master" with several churches in the district. A distinctive feature is the southern portal, into which a runestone bearing a memorial inscription has been built.

By the early nineteenth century the building had been condemned by the bishop, and after a new parish church was built in 1879 the medieval church was left to decay; the nave roof eventually collapsed in the early twentieth century. A restoration between 1925 and 1927 gave the church a new shingle-clad roof and flat ceiling, and returned it to use for worship. Further restoration work took place in the early 1970s.

Inside, the plain nave contrasts with the more richly decorated chancel, separated by a chancel arch. Medieval wall paintings uncovered during the 1920s restoration, thought to date from the thirteenth century, depict scenes including Christ's entry into Jerusalem and the story of Doubting Thomas, along with a fragmentary Crucifixion scene. The stone altar in the apse dates from the church's original construction, and the surrounding walls carry seventeenth-century paintings centred on a depiction of Christ enthroned in glory among clouds and angels.

Other notable furnishings include a Romanesque font, decorated with dragons, lions and other fantastical creatures and attributed to the same Njudunga workshop, and a medieval triumphal crucifix of thirteenth-century date hanging in the chancel arch. The pulpit, an inlaid Renaissance-style piece dated to 1679, stands on the north side of the nave, and a 1701 memorial tablet to a former vicar and his family hangs nearby. The church also has a small mechanical organ built in 1966.