Maglarp new Church, Gothic Revival church in Trelleborg Municipality, Sweden
Maglarp new Church was a red brick church in Gothic Revival style, designed by Harald Boklund and built in 1907–1908. Its tall square tower had a steep pyramidal roof, and the facades featured white plastered vertical bands and pointed-arch windows with tracery, including a rose window. The church was demolished in 2007.
A new church for Maglarp was discussed from the early 1870s; Helgo Zettervall drew a proposal in 1871, and Henrik Sjöström's revised plan was approved in 1893. The built church was designed by Malmö architect Harald Boklund and erected in 1907–1908 with red machine-made brick, consecrated on 17 July 1909. It served as the parish's main church until 1971, was last used in 1976, deconsecrated in 2006 and demolished in 2007.
The church was deconsecrated by bishop Christina Odenberg on 20 May 2006, before demolition began on 3 September 2007. The parish chose not to sell the furnishings: the pulpit canopy went to Lund University Historical Museum, the altarpiece to Trelleborgs Museum, and parishioners took the pews.
The church was demolished in September 2007, so nothing of the building remains; only the churchyard site on the plain near the Baltic coast can be visited. The bells were stored at Skånska Klockgjuteriet in Hannas, and the parish planned to place the small bell on the church's foundations once a new bell tower was ready.
When the church was demolished in 2007, a copper box was found holding a handwritten letter from a priest dated 1907, coins and newspapers. The letter recorded the building costs of 71,000 kronor, equivalent to about 3.1 million SEK today. The congregation gave the furnishings to museums and residents rather than selling them.
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