Fröslunda kyrka

The church was probably built towards the end of the 1400s, with its porch added a little later in the early 1500s. It is constructed of rendered natural stone, with brick used for the gable tops and door surrounds, and stands beside a separate timber-clad bell tower dated to 1752. Several furnishings are older than the present building, suggesting an earlier church stood on or near the site.

Built on difficult moraine ground, the church has suffered repeated settlement cracks over the centuries, prompting recurring repairs. A significant rebuilding took place in 1816, when the medieval brick vaults were removed as unsafe and replaced with a wooden barrel vault, and the windows were enlarged. Further substantial work followed in 1907, when the south-east corner was rebuilt in brick, and in 1932 one large medieval chancel window was blocked up again.

While the exterior still reads as medieval, the interior is dominated by 18th-century work. The east wall has an unusual arrangement in which the pulpit sits directly above the altar, an ensemble carved in rococo style in 1762 by Magnus Granlund. The altarpiece showing Christ on the cross dates from the early 1700s, and the fixed pews are from the 1760s, lightly altered during a 1930s renovation.

Among the older furnishings are a limestone font contemporary with the church, a 13th-century sculpture of the Virgin and Child kept in the sacristy, and a Christ figure thought to date from the late 1200s, its crossed feet pierced by a nail and a groove around the head suggesting it once bore a crown. A carved image of Saint Bridget from the early 1400s and a large figure of John the Baptist from the first half of the 1300s are also preserved, along with an extensive set of brass and bronze candelabra from the 1500s and 1600s.

The west gallery houses an organ with a case dating back to the 1500s, decorated with graceful tracery on its three towers. The instrument itself has a more complicated history: built originally for Kumla church in Västmanland, rebuilt in the 18th century by Daniel Stråhle, and moved to Fröslunda in 1819, where it was later restored to reflect Stråhle's 1738 specification.