Södervidinge kyrka

The medieval church that once stood here was a small Romanesque building of fieldstone and squared sandstone blocks, described by the antiquarian Carl Georg Brunius as modest and towerless. As the congregation grew, it was judged too small, and it was demolished to make way for the current church, completed in 1870 to designs by the Stockholm architect Edvard von Rothstein. Sources note that the builder, Nils Andersson of Malmö, took on the contract partly in exchange for the materials of the old church and its bell tower.

Many fittings from the earlier church were retained. The gallery screen, painted in 1775 with depictions of Christ and the apostles, is the work of the Landskrona painter Johan Cullman and remains a striking feature. The older altarpiece of 1746, with two paintings attributed to Carl Mörth, a drawing master at Lund University, was moved to the north wall of the nave rather than discarded when the new altar arrangement was installed.

The font is one of the church's most significant medieval survivals: a Romanesque sandstone basin carved in Höör in the later twelfth century by the stonemason Mårten, whose runic signature appears on its rim. Its black-painted oak lid and brass basin date from the sixteenth century, though it has been suggested the lid could be a later copy in an older style. A crouching lion in Romanesque form serves as its handle.//The present altarpiece, set into a wooden screen dividing choir from vestry, is arranged in three tiers with gilded and red-painted mouldings against a brown ground; it includes a silvered brass crucifix and, at its summit, a figure of Christ in the manner of Thorvaldsen.

The church has two bells, cast in 1637 and 1653, both older than the current building. A tower clock was added in 1934, funded by donation and a bank loan when the gift proved insufficient. The organ was rebuilt in 1944 by Mårtensson's organ workshop in Lund, replacing an 1881 instrument by Anders Victor Lundahl of Malmö.