Timmersdala kyrka stands in the Timmersdala kyrby, part of Bergs församling in Skara stift, Västra Götaland. Its origins trace back to the 13th century, though the building visitors see today largely dates from the 1830s following a dramatic fire.
The medieval church here was a modest long-house structure with a straight-ended chancel and small, sparingly placed windows, typical of churches in the Billingen district. It had no tower, its bells instead hanging in a separate shingle-clad bell frame topped with a spire and cross. On 27 June 1833 a lightning strike set the church ablaze, destroying it almost completely. It was rebuilt on the surviving walls and reopened in 1835, this time with a three-sided chancel, a north sacristy, a west porch and a tower rising over the west end, its lantern topped with a spired cross.
The interior reflects the light, restrained neoclassical taste of the 1830s rebuilding. During restoration work between 1917 and 1922 the church gained a new porch to the west, along with a new altarpiece, font and pulpit—the last said to have been brought from Lerdala kyrka. Further changes in 1968 altered the colour scheme to its present appearance, added a new altar rail, created a cloakroom in the west end of the nave, and rebuilt the stair to the gallery; the nave received a new wooden floor and the chancel a limestone one.
The altarpiece, dated to 1922 and painted by Anna Schwab, is a copy of a work by the Dutch artist Martin Pepijn, whose original hangs in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm; it depicts the presentation of the infant Jesus in the temple, with Simeon holding the child. The wooden font, made in 1922 by the local craftsman Verner Håkansson, stands near a 1975 painting by Karl-Olov Steen on the theme of Christ receiving the children. Both of the church's bells were recast after the 1833 fire—the larger in 1835 and the smaller in 1864.
A more recent renovation in 2006–2007 opened two new windows to bring additional light into the church, and a new porch with a small kitchen area and accessible toilet was added in 2007.
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Timmersdala kyrka stands in the Timmersdala kyrby, part of Bergs församling in Skara stift, Västra Götaland. Its origins trace back to the 13th century, though the building visitors see today largely dates from the 1830s following a dramatic fire.
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