Sakristians portal, Tensta kyrka, Tensta socken, Uppland 2004

The picture has been taken in connection with the cultural historical characterization of Tensta Church, Tensta parish, Uppland 2004. An interior, the church gets its character from the rich medieval painting screw on walls and vaults and the age-old, well-preserved fixed interior. On the north wall there is a painting of a man in knightly equipment that holds the arms of Oxenstierna. The painting is likely to represent the owner of Salsta Bengt Jönsson Oxenstierna, who is also believed to have funded the paintings. It is very unusual for a portrait in a medieval church to be attached to a real historical person. The western trotting of the longhouse also features paintings of the Holy Birgitta and her apparitions, the Birgittalegenden. This Birgittasvit is unique and lacks a counterpart in medieval Swedish church painting. The paintings in Tensta were made in 1437, and were executed by the artist Johannes Rosenrod after long houses and cows were fitted with brick vaults. The painter’s signature and the year 1437 are in the choir. The interior of the church has originally had a much higher journey as the longhouse was covered by a wooden barrel vault and the choir of a cloverleaf shaped wooden vault. When the brick vault was bricked, the height of the room was narrowed. The traces of the wooden vaults are clearly seen on the church side through the shape of the well-preserved medieval roof trusses. The wind is reached by a walled staircase in the northern wall of the longhouse in its westernmost travé. In the attic, the wooden structure that had served up the roof rider that remained until the 1700s is seen. Above the brick vault on the east wall of the longhouse there are three white-trimmed, large niches of blinding that were originally visible from the church room at that time the tall wooden vault existed. The gunhouse is unusually large and covered with two plastered brick rib vaults. The floor is paved with brick. The gateway to the longhouse has a richly profiled extent in bricks that has been trimmed and painted. The calcareous paintings of the gunhouse on walls and arches are available in the early 15th century. It is narrative figurative paintings that reflect the imaginary world of the Middle Ages. Longhouses and cows have floors of limestone slabs in addition to the westernmost travé that has brick floors. A number of older tombstones are in the basket floor and the middle aisle. The longhouse is three trots long, the chancel is narrower than the longhouse and consists of a trotting. The vault is sandwiched brick rib vaults worn up by strong vault jacks. The western trotting is home to an organ launcher. The reader and the fan barrier are in their present form from 1780-81 when a new organ was also added. The organ with its facade is preserved and restored to its original condition. A staircase up the western trotting is a secluded room with a barrel vault that is reached from the windstaircase. The west party of the church lacks the bench interior. Adjacent to the western gable wall is one of the two medieval baptismal finds of the church. The width of the longhouse consists of two blocks closed with gables, doors and barriers. It was added in the 17th century. In the triumphal arch between longhouses and cows are the two men’s capes that raise a piece above the rest of the bench interior. The bench interior exhibits patina with its age-old marbling in blue green. Furthermore, church hosts' benches are in the same style in the choir towards the south and north wall.