Tierp

Tierp lies in northern Uppland, amid farmland and woodland between Uppsala and the lower Dalälven. Its medieval church, built of fieldstone and brick around 1300, served a wide rural parish. In the fifteenth century brick vaults replaced its earlier wooden ceiling, and painters decorated the new vaults with religious images. These paintings gave colour to one of the largest country churches in Uppland, a gathering place for the farms and villages of the district.