Munkarps kyrka, a parish church in Munkarp some seven kilometres west of Höör in Skåne, was completed in 1884. Built in a mixture of neo-Gothic, neo-Romanesque and neo-Classical styles, it was designed by architect Carl Möller, who also designed the churches at Eslöv and Ignaberga, developing an earlier proposal by Johan Erik Söderlund.
The present church replaced a medieval stone building erected in the second half of the 12th century, which stood on a hillside west of today's site and had fallen into such disrepair that it was demolished in 1883. The foundations of the old church were uncovered in 1922 and restored in 1946; they remain visible at a ruined churchyard around 300 metres from the current building, and a model of the earlier church is displayed in the chancel.
The church's appearance has changed over the years. A restoration in 1969, led by architect Torsten Leon-Nilsson, included the fitting of a new vestry and renewal of the pew furnishings.
Among the most notable furnishings is the pulpit, which survives from the medieval church and dates from around 1615, the work of Jakob Kremberg's workshop. Kremberg, thought to have been born in Schleswig-Holstein, arrived in Lund in the mid-1590s, where he first worked on the interior decoration of Lund Cathedral. The pulpit's reliefs depict the adoration of the shepherds, the crucifixion, the resurrection and the ascension, along with carved caryatid figures representing Patience, Faith, Prudence and Justice. In the mid-18th century the pulpit was brightly painted by the Simrishamn painter Kristoffer Fischer, though it now bears only a plain brown stain.
The sandstone font also dates from the medieval church, carved in the 12th century, with its font bowl made in 1947. A 15th-century crucifix and a 14th-century image of the Madonna, once kept in the old church, are now held at the Historical Museum in Lund; copies carved in 2004 by sculptor Mårten Hultenberger have been installed in the church, the Madonna near the font and the crucifix on the west wall of the nave.
The brass chandeliers date from the 1890s, and two bells hang in the tower: a smaller one from the 1780s and a larger one cast in 1846. The current organ, a mechanical instrument, was built and inaugurated in 1964 by Anders Mårtensson's organ workshop in Lund, replacing an earlier 1891 organ by Salomon Molander & Co of Gothenburg.
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Höörs församling
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Munkarps kyrka, a parish church in Munkarp some seven kilometres west of Höör in Skåne, was completed in 1884. Built in a mixture of neo-Gothic, neo-Romanesque and neo-Classical styles, it was designed by architect Carl Möller, who also designed the churches at Eslöv and Ignaberga, developing an earlier proposal by Johan Erik Söderlund.
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