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Alfshögs kyrka

Address
KLOCKAREBOLET 101, 31164, Vessigebro
Municipality
Falkenbergs Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Göteborg

Alfshögs kyrka, in the village of Alfshög near Falkenberg in Halland, is a neo-Gothic parish church built in 1901–1903 to designs by Adrian C. Peterson and Carl Crispin. It replaced an older stone church on or near the same site.



The present church stands where an earlier, presumably Romanesque, stone church once stood, complete with a separate wooden bell tower. That older building's masonry vaults, thought to date from medieval times, were removed in 1761 and replaced with a painted wooden ceiling. A stone porch on the south side was later replaced, around the mid-19th century, with a timber one. By 1901 the old church was considered unsuitable and was demolished to make way for the current building, with its furnishings transferred to the new church.

Built of grey stone, the new church is a good example of neo-Gothic parish architecture, with a rectangular nave, a tower with a tall spire to the south, and a five-sided chancel to the north with an attached sacristy. Buttresses support the walls, and the nave's pointed-arch windows are framed in yellow brick. Inside, a chancel arch separates the nave from the chancel.

A lightning strike caused a fire in 1931, leading to a restoration the following year. During this work, decorative paintings by the Falkenberg firm Ringström & Fjellman were removed, giving the interior a lighter appearance, and several 17th-century furnishings salvaged from the old church were reinstated, including a gallery front painted with images of Christ and the twelve apostles, and the canopy above the pulpit.

Among the church's notable furnishings are an oak pulpit carved with figures of the four evangelists and an altarpiece, both dating from the mid-17th century, with the altar painting itself dated 1653. The canopy above the pulpit is contemporary with it. The oak font is supported by three carved reclining lions, and the surviving pews were decoratively painted in the 18th century by Ditlof Ross. Two bells hang in the tower, one of them cast in 1680 and bearing an inscription.

The church's mechanical organ was built in 1903 by Thorsell & Eriksson, replacing an 1880 instrument by Salomon Molander that had stood in the old church. It was later modified and restored, with some original pipework reinstated.

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Alfshögs kyrka

Alfshögs kyrka, in the village of Alfshög near Falkenberg in Halland, is a neo-Gothic parish church built in 1901–1903 to designs by Adrian C. Peterson and Carl Crispin. It replaced an older stone church on or near the same site.

KLOCKAREBOLET 101, 31164, Vessigebro

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