[6] The initial demand was for a barrel (just over 125 litres) of wheat, oats, barley or rye from each church-owned property in Västergötland province for a three-year period.

[8] The foundation stone was laid by Gothenburg's justitiepresident (judge) Nils Börjesson Drakenberg[9] on 19 June 1626,[2][10] and in 1633 the new main building was complete.

[13] The church was built of granite, faced with Dutch bricks and adorned with 18 iron-trimmed Palladian windows placed between buttressing supports.

[8] The original pulpit was of the German-Dutch type, and its intarsia and other carving work suggests that it had been crafted either in Lübeck or by some North Germans residing in Gothenburg.

[13] Sculptor Marcus Jaeger the Elder carved the new pulpit with historical images in alabaster and ebony in 1674.

In 1869 tailor Torsten Gunnarsson upholstered the throne in red velvet, probably in honour of Charles XI's 10 September visit to Gothenburg.

Four years later, for 400 silver riksdaler, John Hammer painted the king's throne in white alabaster and gold.

Jaeger was hired in 1697 to produce four Corinthian pillars beneath the organ to elevate it, probably in the west part of the nave, near the tower wall.

The organ was repaired several times: in 1696 by Christian Rüdiger, in 1699 by John George Ambthor and in 1707 by Elias Wittig.

[5][16] The city's oldest cemetery was located at the foot of Kvarnberget, west of Kronhuset – once an armoury and now a historical museum and concert site[20] – on the corner of the present Torggatan, then called Kyrkogårdsgränden and Sillgatan (now Postgatan).

[3] Barely a month after the fire, at the request of city manager (politieborgmästare) Hans von Gerdes (1637–1723), the architect Paul Ludvig Leyonsparre presented three options for rebuilding the church, the third of which was recommended by county governor (landshövding) Nils Posse.

The roof proved to be so leaky that county governor Axel Gyllenkrok complained in October 1724 of rain and snow getting through.

In December 1725 the city engineer was instructed to draw up proposals for a new copper roof covering, and work began in June 1726.

A contract signed on 11 January 1733 specified that it was to be completed "in a good and perfect state, equal to the organ works now to be found in Uppsala".

[25] In January 1750, superintendent Carl Hårleman proposed a sculpted altarpiece to portray Christ, a cross and two kneeling angels.

In 1769 a charnel house was built on the northwestern part of the cathedral block, on the corner of Kyrkogatan and Västra Hamngatan, with space for forty coffins.

To avoid a bad smell in the church, the mayor and council (magistrat) of Gothenburg decided that all corpses buried during the six warmer months from 1 April to 1 October would first be stored in the charnel house.

Set into the walls were five spacious gates built of hard-fired clinker brick and covered with sheet lead.

[27] In 1775, French sculptor Pierre Hubert Larchevesque (1721–1778)[28] sculpted a cathedral monument to Colin Campbell (1686–1757), the co-founder of the Swedish East India Company.

John Hall the Elder's funeral had been held in the cathedral shortly before, and his remains were still there, waiting for the completion of a large tomb at the Örgryte Cemetery, so both the corpse and the costly coffin were destroyed.

Materials from the demolished cathedral walls and three iron gates were sold at auction, and the proceeds were used for a new cemetery enclosure at Stampen.

It is said that Weinberg did not attend the inauguration for fear that the church's thin, flat arches would collapse (in the early 20th century the structure was reinforced).

[35] In 1807, Dean Hall was built at the corner of Cross Street 22 and Vallgatan 28 after wall-builder Gottlieb Lindner's drawings.

[37][38][39] After completion, the church exterior was basically the one seen today, the major change being that the end walls of the tower's lateral extensions were demolished in 1832 and replaced by an iron railing.

[13][16] A plaque on the east side of the chancel recalls this use with the following text: Domkyrkoplanen has for centuries been a cemetery.Here rests the dust of twenty thousand dead.The cathedral was the first church in Sweden to be fitted with central heating, which was installed in 1852 under the management of the English civil engineer Hadon.

[7] Emipire style is represented in the combination of white and gold leaves in many of the interior fittings, the glazed episcopal bench that is used today to chat to visitors and the clergy, the wall clock and the stands.

The figures were sculpted in 1752 by Jacques Adrien Masreliez, led by[clarification needed] Carl Hårleman, and were salvaged from the fire.