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Mölltorps kyrka

Address
Kyrkvägen 25
Municipality
Karlsborgs Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Skara

Mölltorps kyrka is a small medieval stone church standing on the southern shore of Kyrksjön in Karlsborg municipality, Västra Götaland. Probably built in the later 13th century, it remains a good example of a modest rural Skara diocese church with later alterations layered onto its original form.



The church is a single-cell hall church with a chancel of the same width as the nave and a straight east end, its whitewashed walls pierced by tall, narrow windows. A three-part window set above the west entrance is thought to be medieval and may originally have sat in the chancel's south wall before being moved during restoration work in the twentieth century. The gable ends are covered in tarred wooden shingles, giving the building a distinctive silhouette.

The exterior's most memorable feature is the shingle-clad ridge turret on the western half of the roof, topped with a spire and weathervane; the vane bears the date 1663, suggesting the turret itself may date from that century, though the church's sacristy is thought to be a fifteenth-century addition. Windows were enlarged in the eighteenth century, and the building has seen several changes of porch and entrance since, including the removal of a stone porch during restoration work in the mid-twentieth century, when the west door became the main entrance.

Inside, the flat wooden ceiling and gallery front were decorated in 1744 by the painter Johan Liedholm (recorded elsewhere as Liedbom), working in the tradition associated with the Läckö school. The paintings depict the Last Judgement and the parable of the Prodigal Son. A chancel screen with an arch supported on two carved "pyramids" was erected in 1704; the pyramids were later removed, possibly during an 1888 restoration, then rediscovered in the attic and reinstated in the early 1940s, when the current enclosed pews were also made to suit the Baroque character of the interior.

Several older furnishings survive. The sandstone altar is medieval and has a recess, on its south side, that once concealed relics; these were found during an early twentieth-century renovation and are now kept at the Västergötland Museum. The sandstone font, with a foliage-carved bowl, dates from the 1250s, making it one of the oldest objects in the church. The Baroque pulpit, from the late seventeenth century, carries carved figures of the apostles Peter, John, James the Younger and Andrew, while the altarpiece of 1684 bears the coats of arms of its donors, a local noble couple.

Two bells hang in the turret: a plain, undated bell of a late medieval type, and a smaller bell cast in 1637. A stained-glass window depicting the Good Shepherd, made in 1919 by Yngve Lundström, lights the chancel.

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Mölltorps kyrka

Mölltorps kyrka is a small medieval stone church standing on the southern shore of Kyrksjön in Karlsborg municipality, Västra Götaland. Probably built in the later 13th century, it remains a good example of a modest rural Skara diocese church with later alterations layered onto its original form.

Kyrkvägen 25

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