Västra gavelns port, Löts kyrka, Löts socken, Uppland 2004

Dellbeck, Johan

The picture has been taken in connection with cultural historical documentation of the Church of Löt, Uppland in 2004. The parish church consists of a longhouse and a narrower, shaven choir. The church is walled in the graystone as a trimmed. To the north of the choir is the sacristy. On the south side of the church is the Rålambska tomb on the site of a medieval house of arms. The sacristy is the oldest building part of the church and is believed to have belonged to an older wooden church from the 1100s. The present church was erected in the second half of the 1200th century. The façades of the church are plastered and whitewashed. The western gable has a portico with putted extent in the Neo-Romanesque style and a round-arched frieze that follows the roof slope. Portrait and frieze are painted in ocher. The western gable got its shape at the 1908 restoration that was carried out after the city architect in Uppsala Carl Axel Ekholm’s drawings. The Entrance Door has features of Art Nouveau with its forged decorations and is crowned by a fresco painting in a round-arched form with a cross surrounded by flower ranks. The roofs are covered with tar shavings. The windows of the church are rounded and have a damn, brown painted windows in neo-Gothic style.