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Nossebro kyrka

Municipality
Essunga Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Skara

Nossebro kyrka is a parish church in the small town of Nossebro, in Essunga municipality, part of Essunga församling within the Diocese of Skara. Built in the 1920s to serve a growing railway community, it remains a notable local landmark on a rise above the Nossan river.



The church was built between 1925 and 1927 to give the expanding station settlement of Nossebro a church of its own, funds having been gathered locally to make the project possible. It was designed by the architect Knut Nordenskjöld and constructed on the crest of a small hill beside the Nossan river, at the heart of the town.

Architecturally the building follows a traditional plan: a single-aisled, rectangular nave with a straight-ended chancel to the east of the same width as the nave. A substantial tower rises at the western end, topped with a domed cap, an enclosed lantern and a tall spire. The windows are divided into small panes, giving the exterior a restrained, classicising character.

Inside, the decoration is similarly classicising in style, while the ceiling draws on medieval precedent, shaped with a distinctive clover-leaf, or trefoil, form. The altarpiece was painted by John Hedaeus.

Musically, the church first relied on a harmonium before a pipe organ was installed in 1959 on the south-west gallery. Built by A. Magnusson Orgelbyggeri AB, it is a mechanical instrument with nine stops across two manuals and pedal, its case front designed to be acoustically active as well as decorative.

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Facilities & accessibility

  • Toilet
  • Hearing loop

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Essunga församling

Nossebro kyrka

Nossebro kyrka is a parish church in the small town of Nossebro, in Essunga municipality, part of Essunga församling within the Diocese of Skara. Built in the 1920s to serve a growing railway community, it remains a notable local landmark on a rise above the Nossan river.

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Sources & credits

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: 9 Jun 2022. This is not an independent verification date.

Source record: 70ba540e-d59e-4278-8630-1eb0ea5110d1

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Church data retrieved 24 Sep 2026. Visiting details have not been independently verified.

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