Sollefteå kyrka

Architect

Daniel Hagman

Year

1773

Style

Medieval

Type

church

Sollefteå kyrka does not look like a church. The rebuilding of 1773-1778, carried out by the master builder Daniel Hagman and his son Per Hagmansson, gave it a towerless hall with a mansard roof and deep-set windows with triangular heads…

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1773
Original construction
Daniel Hagman, Per Hagmansson
1804-1806
Completion
A combined bell tower and lychgate in timber, of the Bothnian type, was raised at the entrance to the churchyard and painted in 1811. It replaced an earlier bell tower built by Jon Jonsson in 1695, and the structure was thoroughly restored…
1900-1907
Renovation
A thorough rebuilding inside and out, directed by the architect Gustaf Hermansson with the builder J. Wallgren. The church was lengthened by a three-sided chancel, a wide new sacristy was added on the north side and a large vestibule at…
Gustaf Hermansson
1949-1950
Restoration
A thorough restoration reversed part of the previous rebuilding. The Empire pews of 1907 were taken out and replaced with closed pew blocks, and original colours were uncovered on the gallery front, the pulpit and the altar reredos, so the…
2006
Renovation
The chancel was reworked to a proposal by Helena Tallius Myhrman. The fixed altar rail was taken away and replaced by movable kneelers, and the altar itself was placed more centrally, so the chancel could be used in more than one…