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Billinge kyrka

Address
Billinge kyrka 1
Municipality
Eslövs Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Lund

Billinge kyrka, in the village of Billinge in Skåne, is a brick church consecrated on 27 August 1865. It replaced an older medieval church on the same site and belongs to Östra Onsjö parish in the Diocese of Lund.



The present church was designed by the noted cathedral architect Helgo Zettervall and built using around 130,000 bricks brought from Rönneholm Castle. A stone tablet above the main entrance, donated by a local mill owner, bears the year 1864, though a wet summer and early winter delayed completion until the following year. The building cost 20,500 riksdaler, and its walls incorporate a good deal of stone salvaged from the demolished medieval church, which had stood on the same spot.

A sandstone font from the 12th or 13th century survives from the old church, fitted with a brass basin dating from the later 16th century. It remains one of the church's oldest and most tangible links to its predecessor.

Two bells hang in the tower. The larger, cast in 1750, once stood in a separate bell-frame east of the old church; it cracked in 1822 during a funeral but was repaired with iron bands and continued in use for well over a century before being moved to its current position near the chancel in 1958. The smaller bell was cast in 1792, in the year Sweden mourned the death of King Gustav III.

The chancel windows contain stained glass by the artist Hugo Gehlin, the central window depicting the Crucifixion with Mary and John, and Mary Magdalene below, completed in 1933; the flanking windows, showing the twelve apostles each with a personal emblem, were added by Gehlin in 1952.

The church's mechanical organ was built in 1883 by Rasmus Nilsson of Malmö and later renovated in the twentieth century. Seating, originally intended for 875, has since been reduced considerably, reflecting changes in the parish over time.

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Billinge kyrka

Billinge kyrka, in the village of Billinge in Skåne, is a brick church consecrated on 27 August 1865. It replaced an older medieval church on the same site and belongs to Östra Onsjö parish in the Diocese of Lund.

Billinge kyrka 1

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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: 17 Aug 2026. This is not an independent verification date.

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