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Å kyrka

Address
Å, 61030, Vikbolandet
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Linköping

Å kyrka is a parish church on the Vikbolandet peninsula in Östergötland, within Västra Vikbolandets församling. Standing on a hillock amid open farmland, this nineteenth-century building replaced a much older medieval church whose ruins still stand nearby.



The present church was built between 1844 and 1846, designed by architect J. W. Gerss with J. Jonsson as master builder, in a restrained neoclassical style. It has a tower topped with a lantern and a semicircular sacristy behind the chancel.

The medieval church that this building replaced stood a couple of kilometres south, near the shore of Slätbaken. It was damaged by fire in 1878 and has remained a ruin ever since, still visible today.

Several treasured furnishings were carried over from the old church to the new one. A limestone font of ciborium type, dated to the mid-1200s, stands on the south side of the chancel, and a wooden crucifix from the second half of the 1400s, made by a workshop in Östergötland, now hangs above the altar. A carved oak figure of the Madonna and Child from the same period and workshop stands against the north wall. A medieval altarpiece cupboard from the old church is now held at the Swedish History Museum rather than in the church itself.

The brass christening basin bears an engraved note recording its purchase for the church in 1721, a small link to the congregation's earlier furnishings that survived the later rebuilding. During a restoration in 1939 an altarpiece depicting Golgotha and Jerusalem was removed and replaced by the medieval crucifix; what became of that painting afterwards is not recorded.

In the churchyard stand three runestones, catalogued as Ög 31, Ög 32 and Ög 33, which were recovered from the old church following the fire.

The church has had a succession of organs, beginning with a small four-stop instrument built in 1649 and repaired in 1750. A new mechanical organ followed in 1846, later enlarged and altered before restoration in the twentieth century; visitors with an interest in organs will find a modest but historically layered instrument.

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Västra Vikbolandets församling

Å kyrka

Å kyrka is a parish church on the Vikbolandet peninsula in Östergötland, within Västra Vikbolandets församling. Standing on a hillock amid open farmland, this nineteenth-century building replaced a much older medieval church whose ruins still stand nearby.

Å, 61030, Vikbolandet

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

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