Gårdby church
Gårdby church and cemetery are located where the road, which runs along Öland's eastern side from Föra in the north to Ottenby in the south, meets one of the roads to Törnbotten and Färjestaden. Closed due to renovation in 2017.
Here, a small community with residential buildings has grown up. The community used to have service functions such as a general store, railway station, telegraph station and smaller workshops. Today, most of this is gone, but the school still remains.
In Gårdby is also Eksgården with a restaurant and conference facility. East of the church is the parish hall.
The Church
It is not known when Gårdby's first stone church was built, but in the 1200th century there was a Romanesque-style church building here. The church had a nave, chancel and apse. The tower must have been one of the most powerful on Öland with the basic dimensions of 9×10 meters.
At the beginning of the 1800th century, a proposal was made to build a joint church for Gårdby and Sandby parishes. However, nothing came of this. The two parishes each built their own new church instead.
In Gårdby, the new church was completed in 1841. The walls from the medieval church had then been partly used. Architects were T Edberg and NI Löfgren and builder Peter Isberg from Algutsrum.
Both interior and exterior, the church is characterized by classicist style features. The church has been renovated on several occasions. The last time was in 1989.
Memory grove
The memorial grove is located in the southern part of area A. It is open to the north and is screened in the south by a thuja hedge, planted in an arch. Along the hedge is a bench.
The memorial grove is marked by a wooden cross. Around this is a flowerbed with a border of limestone around it. In the flowerbed, creepers and roses, among other things, grow. There is also a stand for vases. At both ends of the thuja hedge there are stone birdbaths.
Buildings
To the east of the cemetery stands a building that houses storage and a workshop. It has white-painted concrete walls except in the gable voice, which has a red-painted standing board panel. The roof is covered with red brick and the joinery is painted white.
Other
Grave guards that were removed from the cemetery are lined up along the cemetery wall to the south. A smaller collection also stands along the wall south of the entrance to the east.
In Gårdby is also Eksgården with a restaurant and conference facility. East of the church is the parish hall.
The Church
It is not known when Gårdby's first stone church was built, but in the 1200th century there was a Romanesque-style church building here. The church had a nave, chancel and apse. The tower must have been one of the most powerful on Öland with the basic dimensions of 9×10 meters.
At the beginning of the 1800th century, a proposal was made to build a joint church for Gårdby and Sandby parishes. However, nothing came of this. The two parishes each built their own new church instead.
In Gårdby, the new church was completed in 1841. The walls from the medieval church had then been partly used. Architects were T Edberg and NI Löfgren and builder Peter Isberg from Algutsrum.
Both interior and exterior, the church is characterized by classicist style features. The church has been renovated on several occasions. The last time was in 1989.
Memory grove
The memorial grove is located in the southern part of area A. It is open to the north and is screened in the south by a thuja hedge, planted in an arch. Along the hedge is a bench.
The memorial grove is marked by a wooden cross. Around this is a flowerbed with a border of limestone around it. In the flowerbed, creepers and roses, among other things, grow. There is also a stand for vases. At both ends of the thuja hedge there are stone birdbaths.
Buildings
To the east of the cemetery stands a building that houses storage and a workshop. It has white-painted concrete walls except in the gable voice, which has a red-painted standing board panel. The roof is covered with red brick and the joinery is painted white.
Other
Grave guards that were removed from the cemetery are lined up along the cemetery wall to the south. A smaller collection also stands along the wall south of the entrance to the east.