Horreds kyrka

The present church, built in the restrained Karl Johan neoclassical style by master builder Pehr Nilsson, was consecrated in 1828 after the older medieval stone church nearby was demolished. Part of that earlier church's north wall was reportedly incorporated into the south wall of the new building. The whitewashed exterior, with its large round-arched windows, rectangular nave, three-sided chancel and west tower topped by a shingled spire, is considered a well-preserved example of the period's simple classicism.

Inside, the barrel-vaulted wooden ceiling covers a room decorated in 1893 with painted faux ashlar (quadering), still visible today. Two eighteenth-century furnishings were carried over from the old church: an altarpiece of 1733 by Jonas Elfvenberg depicting the institution of the Eucharist, and a baroque pulpit of around 1700 decorated with the four evangelists. Stained glass by Yngve Lundström and N. P. Ringström was added to the chancel windows in 1949.

Among the church's older treasures is a soapstone font dated to the late thirteenth century, attributed to the so-called Starrkärr school of carvers, with fifteen round-arched arcades decorating its bowl. A set of church bells includes two of late medieval type; the larger is inscribed with a short devotional phrase and bears an unusual incised labyrinth design. A patterned velvet chasuble, originally red but now faded to a yellowish-brown, dates from the first half of the seventeenth century.

A notable curiosity is the old strongbox kept in the tower, once used to store the church silver and funds. It was fitted with three separate locks, each opened by a different keyholder—two churchwardens and the priest—so that no single person could open it alone.

Just north of the church stands a small whitewashed building known as the wine cellar, originally a medieval ossuary used to store bones disturbed during grave digging. It is crowned by a weathervane in the shape of a dragon's head, dated 1714, thought to have come from the old church's wooden tower. The churchyard is enclosed by a tall dry-stone wall built in 1791, with three surviving whitewashed lychgates from 1792; a fourth, to the west, was demolished in 1904 when the churchyard was extended.

The church underwent renovations in the 1930s, 1950s and again in 1970, when a new sacristy was added to the north side of the chancel, replacing an earlier one behind the altar. The current eighteen-stop organ was built in 1973 by Tostareds Kyrkorgelfabrik.