Vårfrukyrkan, Skänninge
1300
Gothic
church
Skänninge's Vårfrukyrkan was known as Garpekyrkan, after the garpar, the Germans who made up a substantial part of the medieval town, gave large sums toward the building and were buried in it. Raised around 1300 on Stora torget as one of…
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- 1874-1876
The wooden vaults over the nave were replaced with brick vaults, carried on the medieval corbels that were kept in place. The fixed pews were taken out at the same time and a copy of Thorvaldsen's Christ was set up as the altar ornament.
- 1927
Erik Fant gave the church fixed pews again and put the seventeenth century altarpiece back in place, reversing part of what the previous century's work had removed. The interior was taken back towards its eighteenth century state rather…
Erik Fant
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