Gryta Church is a medieval Lutheran church located in a shallow valley about 2 kilometers northeast of Örsundsbro, in the Archdiocese of Uppsala in Uppsala County, Sweden. A few hundred meters west of the church is Salnecke Castle, one of Sweden's best-preserved castles from the mid-17th century.HistoryChristianity made inroads in areas already in the 11th century, as the Christian crosses on rune stones in the area suggest. The first church building was probably made of wood. The building material of this single-nave church with a rounded apse is fieldstone. The church was enlarged sometime later, probably circa 1250–1350.In 1578, the church was struck by lightning and consequently ravaged by fire; the rounded apse got its semicircular appearance probably from the time of reconstruction following this event. The bell tower has two bells, a large and a small one. The oldest surviving church council register from the mid-17th century mentions about repairs to the bell tower, built in 1752. In the 1770s the whole tower except the ground floor was demolished and the ceiling rebuilt so that the whole church might be covered by a flat-pitched roof. Originally the church had a stone tower, but the upper parts of this was dismantled in 1775 as it was in poor condition.ArchitectureTo the north of the church a vestry is located and to the south a church porch. Inside, the ceiling is supported by 15th-century brick vaults. Most of the furnishings are Rococo in style, dating from the mid-18th century. The western part of the church is where the remains of the tower are. The oldest parts are located in the nave and are probably from the Romanesque era. To the west of the nave, erected around the 12th century, is a narrower part of the building which forms lower part of the former tower. The sacristy is located on the church's north side. and the pulpit, acquired in 1697, was probably made by a carpenter at the site after a model of some neighboring church's pulpit, for the type itself and ornaments were fashionable in the 17th century.
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