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Gryteryds kyrka

Address
Gryteryd 6, 333 92, Broaryd
Municipality
Gislaveds Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Växjö

Gryteryds kyrka is a parish church in the village of Gryteryd, in Gislaved Municipality, Jönköping County, belonging to Burseryd parish in the Diocese of Växjö. A stone building of the 1760s, it replaced an earlier timber church that had stood on the site since 1575.



An earlier wooden church on this site dated from 1575. It was replaced by the present stone church, built in 1762–1764 and consecrated in 1769. A tower was added in 1822 on the western side, taking the place of the original porch.

The church consists of a rectangular nave with a straight-ended chancel to the east and a low tower to the west, with a sacristy attached to the north side of the chancel. Entrances are found on the west side of the tower and the south side of the chancel. The roofs are covered with plain clay tiles, while the tower is topped by a white-painted timber lantern clad in copper.

Inside, the barrel-vaulted wooden ceiling is decorated with paintings completed in 1772 by Sven Niclas Berg of Reftele. An altar painting of the Crucifixion, dating from 1878, is painted directly onto the wall rather than on a separate canvas.

Among the older furnishings is an oak font from 1691 and a four-sided pulpit with a sounding board, made in 1791 by Sven Nilsson Morin of Gnosjö parish to designs by Thure Wennberg of the Office of the Surveyor of Public Works (Överintendentsämbetet). A longcase floor clock from 1838 is also noted among the church's fittings.

The church has had a succession of organs: an instrument acquired from Burseryd church in 1763, a new organ built in 1787, another in 1868, and a further rebuild in 1949. The current organ, built in 1967 by Västbo Orgelbyggeri of Långaryd, retains the façade of the 1868 instrument.

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Gryteryds kyrka

Gryteryds kyrka is a parish church in the village of Gryteryd, in Gislaved Municipality, Jönköping County, belonging to Burseryd parish in the Diocese of Växjö. A stone building of the 1760s, it replaced an earlier timber church that had stood on the site since 1575.

Gryteryd 6, 333 92, Broaryd

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