17 km32 Churches in Varde Deanery
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Lunde Church is a place where the Middle Ages can still be read in the walls. The chancel and nave are Romanesque and built of granite ashlar, while the later additions give the church a more composite appearance. From the outside, the contrast is worth noticing: rough granite, whitewashed wall sections, the tower’s gable roof and a porch with tile instead of lead.
If the church interior is open, you enter a simple room with whitewashed walls in rough fieldstone. The chancel is vaulted, the nave has a flat beamed ceiling, and the narrow pointed chancel arch tells of the alterations in the late Middle Ages. The furnishings cover a broad range: Romanesque altar table and granite font, Gothic altarpiece, chancel arch crucifix group and carvings from the Renaissance.
Today the church stands in the middle of Lunde, but it previously stood high and free in the landscape between Lunde and Øster Kastkær. That location is still sensed in the churchyard’s northern, higher part, where the stone wall and the protected surroundings preserve the view of the building. In summer, the trees can block some of the view from the north, but the church still stands clearly between the trunks.
