Skänninge Church, Medieval church in Skänninge, Sweden.

Skänninge Church is a three-aisled hall church with a slightly higher central nave, built of red brick in monk bond on a limestone base. It has pointed windows, a säteri roof, and a western tower crowned by a hood added in 1776 after a fire. The stepped east gable is decorated with blindings, including a rose and a cross.

German craftsmen who settled in Skänninge in the late 13th century built the church in a German urban pattern near the town square. It was consecrated in 1306 and dedicated to the Virgin Mary, hence the name Vårfrukyrkan; Swedes called it Garpekyrkan, as Garpe was a common medieval term for Germans. A fire in 1466 hit the church, and the town's decline after Vadstena's rise left the parish struggling to maintain it.

German craftsmen who settled in Skänninge at the end of the 13th century built their own church by the town square, consecrated in 1306 to the Virgin Mary, which gave it the name Vårfrukyrkan. Swedes in the town called it Garpekyrkan, since garpe was the medieval term for a German. Inside, a medieval Gotland baptismal font stands to the right of the choir, and a newer font dates from 1951.

The church stands by the square in Skänninge, eight kilometres north of Mjölby, with entrances on the west and south sides of the nave. The interior walls have been covered with thick plaster since the 1870s. The pulpit hangs from a column on the left of the central nave, and the organ stands on the west gallery.

The tower's present hood dates from 1776, replacing the spire lost in the town fire of 4 March 1718, which started on a farm by Nya Vadstenagatan and spread to the church. The two central vaults collapsed the day after services resumed, destroying benches and gravestones; the west and east vaults held.