Lilla Beddinge kyrka, on Söderslätt in Skåne, is a late nineteenth-century parish church designed by the celebrated cathedral architect Helgo Zettervall. It replaced a medieval church that once stood in the northern part of the village.
The church stands at a bend in the road in the newer part of the village. Sources differ slightly on the exact building date: one account gives 1882, while the Wikipedia entry records that construction was completed and the building contract signed in 1880. Either way, it was designed by Helgo Zettervall, then in his fifties, and built by the Malmö master builder Nils Andersson. It replaced an older medieval church that stood at the original burial ground in the village's north, which was demolished once the new building was ready; the site is still marked by a disused churchyard, where a small stream winds past old gravestones beneath large trees.
The decision to move the church followed some twenty years of indecision within the parish over how the old churchyard might be enlarged. Eventually the parish assembly resolved to tear down the medieval building and erect a new church on newly purchased land to the south, reflecting the village's growing population, which is said to have roughly doubled during the nineteenth century.
Architecturally, the church is built in a neo-Romanesque style, with a tower, a semicircular chancel and a dome over the crossing. Entering from the dim porch, visitors are struck by the flood of light within: the nave meets the transepts beneath a windowless dome, while the transept arms instead have tall, high-set windows. A rose window sits on the tower's western side. The overall impression is light and modern, with a decorative colour scheme of reds, pale yellows and browns, and a floor patterned with tiles of contrasting colours.
A notable survival from the earlier medieval church is its font, dated by different sources to either the twelfth or the eleventh-to-twelfth century, which was retained when the new building opened.
The church's organ history is of some interest to enthusiasts: an 1890 mechanical organ by Salomon Molander & Co of Gothenburg was later altered in the 1960s, and by the late 1980s was reportedly out of use; an electric organ was acquired in 1987 as a replacement.
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Lilla Beddinge kyrka, on Söderslätt in Skåne, is a late nineteenth-century parish church designed by the celebrated cathedral architect Helgo Zettervall. It replaced a medieval church that once stood in the northern part of the village.
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