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Skogs-Tibble kyrka

Address
Skogs-Tibble 30, 75576, Vänge
Municipality
Uppsala Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Uppsala

Skogs-Tibble kyrka is a Romanesque church in Uppsala län, Sweden, dating from the 1100s. Standing at the edge of woodland where the Sävaån valley meets forest, it belongs to Norra Hagunda parish and occupies a site first recorded in documents in 1295.



The church is built of locally quarried granite and consists of a rectangular nave with a narrower, lower chancel and apse to the east. A sacristy adjoins the chancel's north side, and a porch stands at the nave's south-west corner. Difficult ground conditions have caused the building to sink into the earth by around a metre over the centuries.

Traces of fire debris found beneath the floor and to the north suggest an earlier wooden church may once have stood on the site. The core of the present stone building — the eastern bays of the nave and the chancel with its apse — was raised in the 1100s. Towards the end of the 1400s the nave was extended westward by another bay, and the sacristy and porch were added around the same time. The brick rib vaults seen today, replacing an earlier flat wooden ceiling, date from the 1490s; those in the western bay and porch are decorated with faces and figures worked into the plaster among the vault ribs, a feature known locally as 'gubbvalv'. The vault paintings and a widening of the chancel arch appear to belong to this same building campaign.

The interior was whitewashed and fitted with a gallery and fixed pews in 1646. A proposed radical rebuilding in the 1850s — which would have demolished the porch and apse — was approved but never carried out. Instead, a restoration in 1879 under August Mankell gave the roof its present low profile, raised the floor by some 70 centimetres over the surviving medieval floor beneath, and introduced new pews, a pulpit and an altarpiece. A further restoration in 1929, led by architect Ärland Noreen, reversed some of these changes: earlier wall paintings were uncovered, the free-standing altar was restored with a crucifix, and traditional closed pews returned.

Among the furnishings, the sandstone font is attributed to the workshop of the Gotland master Sighraf and is thought to date from around 1200, close to the church's own construction; it depicts scenes from the infancy of Christ and the Annunciation. Two 17th-century altar candlesticks of silvered brass, a bronze chandelier from 1694 given by named local donors, and a pair of carved figures representing Faith and Hope — remnants of a 1725 altarpiece — are also kept in the church. The organ was built in 1879 by EA Setterqvist & Son and later restored in 1997.

A free-standing bell tower south-west of the church was originally built in 1729 and rebuilt after a lightning strike in 1839; its two bells date from 1695 and 1742. A mortuary chapel from 1934, standing at the south-west edge of the churchyard, houses the altarpiece removed from the church during the 1929 restoration.

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Norra Hagunda församling

Skogs-Tibble kyrka

Skogs-Tibble kyrka is a Romanesque church in Uppsala län, Sweden, dating from the 1100s. Standing at the edge of woodland where the Sävaån valley meets forest, it belongs to Norra Hagunda parish and occupies a site first recorded in documents in 1295.

Skogs-Tibble 30, 75576, Vänge

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