Lannaskede gamla kyrka, Medieval church in Landsbro, Sweden

Lannaskede gamla kyrka is a rectangular church with a semicircular apse and steep saddle roof in Landsbro. The southern entrance features supporting columns beneath a stone canopy in classic Romanesque style.

The church was built around 1150 by craftsmen who also worked on Lund Cathedral and stands among Sweden's oldest religious buildings. This Romanesque construction represents the country's early sacred architecture.

The apse keeps medieval wall paintings from the 1200s, and a small medieval window shows how narrow the original openings were. The wooden ceiling carries medallion paintings made in 1702 by Johannes Columbus of Karlskrona: the large one shows God creating the world, the smaller ones putti, flowers, Bible verses and the monogram of Charles XII, framed by acanthus scrolls. The north wall shows Jacob wrestling at the Jabbok ford and the Crucifixion.

The church stands 2 km west of Landsbro on the road toward Sävsjö, about 17 km west of Vetlanda, with the entrance on the south side. The sacristy adjoins the choir on the north side and the porch dates from the 17th century. The bell tower, built in 1937, stands apart from the towerless church.

The Eskilstunakista in the porch is cut from schist and carries runic inscriptions; it is thought to predate the present church. The organ is a positive probably dating from the 1600s, bought by the parish in 1775 for 75 silver daler and rebuilt by Lars Strömblad of Ödeshög, who added a divided trumpet stop. It keeps a cymbelstjärna, a bell-playing star mechanism.