Norrby kyrka

Archaeological investigation during a 1960 restoration revealed a complex building history. Traces of an earlier, possibly wooden, sacristy and a layer of burnt debris beneath the medieval stone church suggest an earlier building on the site was destroyed by fire before the stone church was raised, probably in the late medieval period; a medieval brick west portal supports this later dating. Wikipedia gives a more specific estimate, suggesting the original stone church was built around 1300, with a northern extension added in the 1500s and various strengthening works carried out over the following centuries.

The church's present form dates largely from 1887, when architect Gustaf Dahl oversaw a rebuilding so extensive it amounted to a virtual reconstruction. The exterior, with its rounded arches on doorways, windows and friezes, is described as an unusual example of romanesque revival rather than the neo-Gothic style more fashionable at the time. Inside, cast-iron columns divide the space into three aisles beneath wooden barrel vaulting, with the tallest vault running the length of the nave.

Several older furnishings survived the rebuilding. The font, with its eight-sided, half-spherical bowl carved with geometric ornament suggestive of folk woodcarving traditions, is thought to date from the late medieval period, and may point to a fifteenth-century building phase. The pulpit was carved in 1647 by master carpenter Lars, later regilded in 1758 to match newer furnishings; its sound canopy was removed in the 1887 rebuilding and reinstated during the 1960 restoration.//The altarpiece, made in 1752 by sculptor Magnus Granlund, depicts Christ at Gethsemane and is flanked by fluted columns reflecting a fashionable style of the period, inspired by work at Stockholm's royal palace. Granlund was also responsible for other notable ecclesiastical work, including the font at Uppsala Cathedral.

The present organ was built in 1887 by E A Setterquist & Son and has fifteen stops. A 1970 assessment by the National Heritage Board described it as a characteristic romantic instrument of high technical quality, worth preserving despite some modernisation of its specification; it was subsequently restored, with sources giving the date as either 1980 or 1982.