Ulricehamns kyrka

Timeline

1. 1637

   Renovation

   The windows on the south side were widened and heightened, and an altarpiece was bought from Göteborg. The nave gained daylight from the work, and the windows were enlarged once more in the nineteenth century, when the interior was… Read more

2. 1684

   Addition

   The chancel was lengthened eastwards and kept its straight east end rather than taking an apsidal form. Three windows were opened in the north wall and the ceiling was vaulted, so the enlarged chancel was lit from the north and covered by… Read more

3. 1688

   Renovation

   The newly built board vault was painted with figure scenes by Anders Falck, four years after the vault itself was put up. The painting covered the ceiling raised in the lengthening of the chancel and gave the new east end its decoration.

4. 1715

   Addition

   A burial chapel was built against the south side of the chancel at the expense of mayor Luthman, giving his family a burial room attached to the church. It stood on the opposite side from the sacristy that was added to the north later in… Read more

5. 1717

   Installation

   A new baroque reredos and pulpit were finished by Hans Christoffer Datan, two years after the burial chapel was added to the chancel. Both pieces were left plain at first and were given their colouring and gilding only in the work of 1761.

6. 1757-1758

   Addition

   The nave was lengthened westwards and given a tower with a lantern in two storeys. The building work was led by the master builder Lorentz Knatt from Malmö and was paid for largely by a lottery, which carried the cost of both the extension… Read more

7. 1761

   Renovation

   The enlarged ceiling was completed with figure paintings and the reredos and pulpit were polychromed, all carried out by Sven Wikström. The work followed the westward extension of a few years earlier and tied the new part of the ceiling to… Read more

8. 1791

   Addition

   A sacristy was built out to the north, on the side opposite the burial chapel added earlier in the century. It gave the clergy a room of their own and was the last enlargement of the church before the interior campaign of the 1890s.

9. 1891-1892

   Renovation

   The windows were enlarged, the inner walls were replastered and painted with ashlar patterning, and the church was given open pews in place of the older closed ones together with a semicircular altar rail. The campaign reworked the whole… Read more

10. 2002

    Addition

    Additions were built north and south of the tower to hold a cloakroom and a meeting room, and the entrance was made accessible with a ramp. The new rooms flank the tower raised in the eighteenth century and put parish space at the west end… Read more