Enligt text på fotot: "Grinstads kyrka, Dalsland. 1921".

Johansson, Johan

When Grinstad’s church was restored in 1913, a unique mural painting was discovered on the north long wall. It is a large labyrinth commissioned with red paint. Unfortunately, it was stolen when the windows were enlarged in a long earlier reconstruction. The church was built sometime in the 1200th century. The walls of the longhouse remain from that time. Over the centuries, the appearance has changed considerably. In the late 1600s the church was extended to the east and the choir received a triangular conclusion, which was according to the prevailing style. The tower was erected in 1862. Due to subsidence in the ground, the tower came to lean slightly to the west but no racial risk exists. At the same time as the labyrinth was knocked out, remains of other medieval calcareous paintings were also discovered, the bottom right of the labyrinth is seen as a cross of consequence that the bishop signed when he consecrated the church. The beautiful pulpit is executed in rococo style by Erik Grund in 1774. The baptismal find is preserved from the first time of the church and is dated to the first half of the 1200th century. Also a smoke pair in bronze and some sculptures of burnt clay from that epoch remain. Source: “Our Churches p. 593.”