Skattunge Church, Dalarna

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Skattunge Church

Skattunge kyrka

See two medieval altarpieces in a church that also preserves a pulpit from its 17th-century predecessor.

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Skattunge Church is a stone church in Dalarna, built in 1839 on the site of a wooden chapel dating from the 17th century. The chapel stood inside the new building during construction and was later demolished. The church measures 33 by 14 metres, with a 24-metre tower.

A major restoration in 1961–1962 renewed the exterior plaster and roof, restored the tower and brought back the church’s old altar table and a pulpit from the earlier chapel. The church is built in a neoclassical style, with painted marble-effect decoration. Its two altarpieces came from Orsa Church in 1755. The smaller, made around 1360, is in the vestry and is thought to come from the workshop of the so-called Ala Master on Gotland. The larger, a mid-15th-century work from East Prussia, stands above the altar.

During the 1961 restoration, the church was lent to Svensk Filmindustri for scenes in Ingmar Bergman’s film Nattvardsgästerna. Its two bells date from 1664 and 1759. The church website says the local custom of tolling them after a death continues: the bells sound alternately at eight in the morning, with the larger bell starting for a man and the smaller for a woman. Folk hymns and spiritual songs have also been recorded in Skattungbyn.

Skattunge Church, Dalarna
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