Arninge Church

{{Infobox church | image = 06-04-02-e1 edited-1 Arninge (Lolland).jpg | denomination = [[Church of Denmark]] | country = [[Denmark]] | location = Arninge, [[Lolland]] | name = Arninge Church | native_name = Arninge Kirke | native_name_lang = Danish | completed = ca. 1250 | parish = Arninge Sogn | deanery = Lolland Vestre Provsti | diocese = [[Diocese of Lolland–Falster]] | early_dedication = [[Mary, mother of Jesus]] | architectural_type = [[Romanesque architecture]], [[Gothic architecture]] }}

'''Arninge Church''' is a [[Romanesque architecture|Late Romanesque]] church in the little village of Arninge, some {{convert|8|km|abbr=on}} south of [[Nakskov]] on the Danish island of [[Lolland]]. Built of red brick in the 13th century, it has an intricately carved [[auricular style|auricular]] [[altarpiece]] created by [[Henrik Werner]] in 1644.<ref name="ak">[http://www.vestenskov.dk/kirker/arninge/arningeki.htm "Arninge kirke"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030902/http://www.vestenskov.dk/kirker/arninge/arningeki.htm |date=March 4, 2016 }}, Vestenskov.dk. {{in lang|da}} Retrieved 12 August 2013.</ref><ref name="natmus" />

==History== The church was originally dedicated to the [[Virgin Mary]].<ref name="natmus">[http://www.natmus.dk/uploads/tx_tcchurchsearch/Maribo_0315-0327.pdf Kirsten Weber-Andersen, Otto Norn, Aage Roussell, Gertrud Købke Knudsen, "Arninge Kirke"], ''Danmarks kirker: Maribo amt, Volume 8'', 1951, Nationalmuseet, pages 315-327. {{in lang|da}} Retrieved 10 August 2013.</ref>

==Architecture== [[File:Arninge (Lolland)-crop.jpg|thumb|Arninge Church, Lolland]]Built of red brick, the church consists of a Romanesque [[apse]], [[chancel]] and [[nave]] and a [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] porch. There is a free-standing 14th century timber bell tower adjacent to the church. The chancel has traces of a round-arched south door and of a round-arched window, now bricked up. There are also traces of two Romanesque windows in the south wall of the nave above the porch. The three [[cross-vault]]s in the nave are from the Late-Romanesque period.<ref name=natmus/>

==Interior== The [[altarpiece]] (1644) was carved in the [[auricular style]] by Henrik Werner who also created the altarpiece in [[Maribo Cathedral]]. Werner's workshop also produced the carved font (c. 1640). The crucifix on the chancel wall was found on the loft during restoration work in 1937. The figure of Christ is from c. 1300 although the cross itself is more recent. The [[Renaissance architecture|Renaissance]] pulpit is from c. 1605.<ref name=natmus/><ref name=ak/>

==See also== *[[List of churches on Lolland]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

[[Category:Lolland]] [[Category:Churches in Lolland]] [[Category:Romanesque architecture in Denmark]] [[Category:Lutheran churches converted from Roman Catholicism]] [[Category:Churches in the Diocese of Lolland–Falster]]