List of round churches

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The list of round churches names existing or former round churches . This rather rare design for churches and steeples is known from Denmark , Sweden and Norway , but also from Germany , France , the United Kingdom , Poland , the Czech Republic and Hungary .

Denmark

Illustration Surname place time description
Santa Ols ydre5.jpg
Saint Ols Church Olsker 12th Century
Oesterlars Kirke Bornholm Denmark.jpg
Østerlars Church Østerlars
Nykirke fra vest.jpg
Ny Kirke Nyker 12th Century
Nylars rundkirke- 2005.jpg
Nylars Church Nylars
Thorsager rundkirke.jpg
Thorsager Church Thorsager 12th Century
Horne1.jpg
Church of Horne Horns
Bjernede Kirke.JPG
Bjernede Church Soro

Germany

Illustration Surname place time description
Michaelskirche Fulda 8.JPG
Michaelskirche Fulda
Groitzsch Wiprechtsburg 4.jpg
Chapel (rotunda) Wiprechtsburg Groitzsch , Saxony around 1090 ruin
Höfe (Dreihausen) (4) .jpg
chapel Burg Höfe , Hesse 8th or 9th century Former round chapel in a castle complex, no longer available, diameter 6 meters, with north apse
Capuchin Church Eichstätt -Hl Grab.jpg
Schottenkloster Eichstätt Eichstatt
Wommelshausen - new Ev.  Church (008) .JPG
Ev. church Wommelshausen
WAK UNTERSUHL KIRCHE6.jpg
Untersuhl round church
Resurrection Church Essen.jpg
Church of the Resurrection eat

France

Illustration Surname place time description
Chapelle.Planes.2.png
Santa Maria de Planès Roussillon , située à six kilometers de Mont-Louis
Abbaye de Honcourt.JPG
St. Martin Saint-Martin (Bas-Rhin)
F08.Chambon-sur-Lac.0608.JPG
Chambon-sur-Lac cemetery chapel Chambon-sur-Lac
47rundbaubretagne.jpg
Ste-Marie de Lanleff Lanleff

Great Britain

Illustration Surname place time description
St John the Baptist Church, Little Maplestead 1.jpg
Little Maplestead Church Little Maplestead , Essex around 1340
TempleChurch-Exterior.jpg
Temple Church London
Orphir - round church - geograph.org.uk - 55906.jpg
Round Church of Orphir Scapa Flow 11./12. century

Norway

Illustration Surname place time Remarks
Tønsberg Olavskrk a.JPG
St. Olav Church Tonsberg Completed in 1191 Former church of a Premonstratensian monastery, no longer there, 23 meters in diameter, the only known round church in Norway

Poland

Illustration Surname place time Remarks
Strzelno 3.jpg
St. Prokop Rotunda Strzelno 1133 largest Romanesque rotunda in Poland
Cieszyn rotunda sw Mikolaja.jpg
St. Nikolai Rotunda Cieszyn

Sweden

Illustration Surname place time description
Agnestads kyrkoruin Västergötland Sweden.jpg
Agnestad church ruins Falkoping built in the second half of the 12th century, abandoned in the second half of the 16th century
Bromma kyrka view06.jpg
Bromma Church Bromma
Munso kyrka 2008.JPG
Munsö Church Munso
Hagby kyrka.jpg
Hagby Church Hagby
Skörstorps kyrka Västergötland Sweden 9.jpg
Skörstorp Church Skörstorp
Solna kyrka view4.jpg
Church of Solna Solna
Valleberga round church.jpg
Valleberga Church Valleberga
Rundkyrkan.JPG
Vårdsberg Church Vårdsberg
Voxtorps kyrka.jpg
Voxtorp Church Voxtorp

Czech Republic

Illustration Surname place time description
Stary Plzenec (CZE) - rotunda.jpg
St Peter Starý Plzenec
Vyšehrad-rotunda.jpg
St. Martin Vysehrad
Ceska-Trebova-Rotunda-Svata-Katerina-2.jpg
St Katherina Česká Třebová
Rip rotunda sv Jiri 2.jpg
Jiří na hoře Říp Říp
Rotunda.jpg
Panny Marie a sv. Kateriny Znojmo

Hungary

Illustration Surname place time Remarks
OskuHungaryRotunda.jpg
Öskü
Nagytotlak.JPG
Selo, Moravske Toplice Nagytótlak
Saint Anne Church - Kallósd, Hungary - 2005.jpg
Saint Anne Church Kallósd around 1260

Individual evidence

  1. Panny Marie a sv. Kateriny