Holms Church, Holms parish, Uppland December 2002

The picture has been taken in connection with the cultural historical characterization of Holm’s church, Holm’s parish, Uppland 12 December 2002. Holm’s church is located in a lowland and, for the most part, overgrown plain settlement. On the Iron Age, the parish was an island, which may suggest the parish name. The church is located in the middle of the open culture landscape. The church has the closest character of a castle church to the nearby Sjö Castle. Both the castle and the church were funded by the owner Johan Gabriel Stenbock. The cemetery is very small. Straight west of the church near the cemetery wall stands the belfry erected in 1761. The wall surrounding the entire cemetery is a common cold-walled greystone wall. On the inside of the wall stand rows of old deciduous trees, ash and linden. Two rows of tujor edge the aisle until the church entrance through its western gable. The surface of the cemetery is mostly covered by lawn. The walkers are graveled. A few older burial yards are preserved. They stand in the northwestern part of the cemetery. They date from the late 1800s and early 1900s. There is a Banérgrav among others. The Banér family has owned Sjö Castle since 1813. Lutted to the cemetery wall north of the church stands a fragmentarily preserved burial mound, dating from the 16th or 17th centuries.