Hedared Stave Church stands in Hedared, between Alingsås and Borås in western Sweden, and the article calls it Sweden's only preserved medieval stave church. It was long assumed to be early medieval, but dendrochronology later pointed to the very end of the medieval period. The timber was likely felled around 1501, with construction soon after, and a bishop's letter of 1506 probably refers to it.
The interior is only about 377 square feet (35 square meters). It originally had walls, a roof and an earth floor and no windows, with a small light hole as the only source of light. A wooden floor was added in 1735 and the present windows in 1781.
It holds a thirteenth-century altar, wooden sculptures of the Virgin Mary and Saint Francis, and a ceiling painting of the Resurrection. It is a church of the Church of Sweden.
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