Närtuna Church

The first thing to be built was a defensive tower which, together with an earlier wooden extension, became the first church. The wooden church was demolished during the 1300s and replaced by a church in stone. In a fire in the 1600s the tower collapsed and the medieval paintings were destroyed. The tower was rebuilt, and at the end of the 1800s the bells moved into the newly built lantern. The altar's wreath-adorned cross and the stately entrance gate in the church wall also date from the 1800s. In 1896 the church underwent an extensive renovation and the artist Caleb Ahltin provided it with medieval paintings, which were unfortunately blackened by soot from a heating stove. The church was therefore whitewashed in 1949. The churchyard is surrounded by a granite-stone wall from the 1700s.