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Lekåsa kyrka

Municipality
Essunga Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Skara

Lekåsa kyrka is a parish church in Essunga in Västra Götaland, part of Essunga församling within the Diocese of Skara. Rebuilt in the mid-nineteenth century and again after a devastating fire, it remains a notable local landmark with several interesting historic furnishings.



An earlier church of rough stone, thought to have medieval origins, once stood on the site. The present stone church was built in 1860–1861 to designs by the architect Johan Fredrik Åbom, working for the Royal Board of Public Works, in a style blending Empire and later revival influences.

Disaster struck in 1942, when a fire left only the outer walls standing. The church was rebuilt in 1943–1944 on the surviving walls, this time to designs by the architect Evert Milles, and an entirely new interior was funded through donations. The building has a nave with a three-sided chancel to the east and a narrower tower to the west, with a sacristy adjoining the chancel to the north. The roofs are covered in single-curved clay tile, while the tower has a flat, four-sided cap topped by an octagonal lantern and a slender spire crowned with a copper cross. The exterior walls are roughcast and lightly tinted beige, and the classicist-style interior is said to be largely unaltered since the rebuilding.

Among the furnishings are two wooden sculptures from a late fifteenth-century altar cabinet, depicting Saint Bartholomew and the Madonna and Child — survivors, presumably, of the earlier church and its fittings. The font, turned from oak and finished with a green glaze, and a pulpit with a round basket and matching sound canopy are also of note.

The altarpiece is a colourful carved wooden relief by Axel Wallenberg of Stockholm, its design drawn from a well-known New Testament passage, and topped with a carved and gilded frieze of wheat ears.

The church's earlier organ, built in 1892 by the Liared organ workshop, was replaced in 1944 by a pneumatic instrument built by Harald Lindegren, which remains in use today.

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Facilities & accessibility

  • Toilet
  • Hearing loop

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Essunga församling

Lekåsa kyrka

Lekåsa kyrka is a parish church in Essunga in Västra Götaland, part of Essunga församling within the Diocese of Skara. Rebuilt in the mid-nineteenth century and again after a devastating fire, it remains a notable local landmark with several interesting historic furnishings.

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Sources & credits

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

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