Hängrännor, Västeråkers kyrka, Västeråkers socken, Uppland 2005

Dellbeck, Johan

The picture has been taken in connection with the cultural historical characterization of Västeråker’s church, Västeråker’s parish, Uppland 2005. The Church of Västeråker is one of Uppland’s most noticeable and best preserved churches from the Middle Ages. It can be characterized as a folk youth church. In the choir there is a tomb with a unique engraving in copper over Mrs Ramborg Israeli daughter. Over the tomb is an inscription in Latin, where it is said that the church was built and funded in 1331 by Ramborg, the owner of the nearby Vik estate. The church is built in graystone and brick. The outer masonry shell is of gray stone while the interior is of brick. It was erected with longhouse, narrower cows and sacristy. Probably the House of Arms in the South is also original from the 1300s. From the very beginning, the church was vaulted with a brick vault. The Gothic architecture is reinforced with outside stringed pillars in the corners and in the middle of the longhouse facades. In the south choir wall there is a clogged Gothic masworks window. The other windows are large and round arched and got their shape in 1829. The facades are spirit and whitewashed. The window moths are smooth-trimmed. A peculiarity with the church is that the façades of the choir are slightly higher than those of the longhouses. Longhouses and cows are covered by a common, steep sloping saddle roof covered with tar shavings. The roof of the sacristy and the armistice is also covered by shavings. Wooden pipes and alleys are fitted for the runoff. The windows are provided with lead-cleared windows of brown painted wood. Window benches and aspiring columns are uncovered with false sheet metal.