Östra Vingåkers kyrka

The church stands on ground that has belonged to Vingåker parish since medieval times. Because the parish was so large, residents in its eastern part found it too far to travel to Västra Vingåkers kyrka, so a timber chapel was consecrated on this site in 1642. As the congregation grew, the chapel became too small, and a nationwide collection raised funds for a stone church instead. Building began in 1749 under master builder Pehr Sundling, producing a cross-shaped church with a broken roofline and rendered façades. The main west entrance is marked by a slightly projecting gable borne on pilasters, while the north and south doorways are more simply treated, each topped with a limestone slab bearing a biblical text.

Near the entrance on the south side of the churchyard wall stand two towers: one has served as a burial vault for the Stromberg and Lewenhaupt families, the other functions as a parish storehouse and bell tower, housing four church bells cast between the 1760s and 1770s. Also surviving beside the eastern wall are the old church stables from the 1840s, protected as a listed historic building since 1983, though later moved and shortened from their original length.

Inside, the church retains its original pulpit from the time of construction and a wooden altar topped with a slab of Kolmården marble. The altarpiece, depicting the Descent from the Cross, is a copy after Rubens, painted in 1839; it replaced an earlier altarpiece from 1753 showing the Last Supper, itself a copy after a painting in Nyköping's Alla Helgona kyrka. Two fonts survive from different periods: one in wood, in Empire style, given in 1840, and an older one with a grey sandstone stem and red sandstone bowl, donated to the original chapel in 1666.

The church's silver collection has a more troubled history: older pieces, including a gilded wine jug and a chalice and paten dating to the 1640s, were stolen in burglaries in 1825 and 1841 and never recovered. Surviving silver includes an oval gilt-lined paten made in Stockholm in 1758, and a wine jug, chalice, paten and wafer box made together in 1845. Several historic textiles, including an antependium and vestments dating from around 1700, have since been transferred to museum collections in Strängnäs and Stockholm rather than remaining in the church.

The present organ was built in 1914 by Johannes Magnusson of Gothenburg, enlarging on earlier instruments that dated back to an original 1749 organ by Gren and Stråhle. It was later expanded and adjusted in the twentieth century. A separate mechanical chancel organ, built in the 1970s, was moved here from Sköldinge kyrka in 1978.