Österfärnebo kyrka

The present church was erected between 1819 and 1822 to designs by Gustaf af Sillén, replacing a medieval hall church dating from the 1200s that had stood a little to the northwest. A parish storehouse near the churchyard, built in 1830, incorporates material salvaged from the older medieval building, and a burial vault is also associated with the churchyard.

The building consists of a rectangular nave, an attached sacristy to the east and a tower to the west, with the main entrance beneath the tower and further doors on the north and south sides of the nave. Its white-rendered walls are pierced by large, round-arched window openings picked out in contrasting colour, and a cornice runs around both the nave and the tower. The nave has a broken, hipped roof, while the tower is topped with a shallow dome and lantern; the roof structure was partly rebuilt in 1894.

Inside, the spacious church has plastered walls colour-washed in yellow and a boarded, whitewashed barrel vault. Much of the fixed interior decoration was altered during the second half of the nineteenth century, though these later additions were toned down in a restoration carried out in 1953–1954.

Among the furnishings, the pulpit was carved in 1673 by Olof Persson, a woodcarver from Sala. The medieval font, dating from the 1200s, was removed to the Historiska museet in Stockholm and a copy now stands in the church. A relief from the altarpiece of the old medieval church, dated 1731, is displayed on the east wall of the chancel, alongside two eighteenth-century memorial tablets (epitaphs).

The church has had several organs over its history, including an early eighteenth-century instrument later sold on to another parish and a mid-nineteenth-century replacement. The current main organ dates from 1906, built by Erik Henrik Erikson of Gävle, with a separate chancel organ added in 1977.