Sæby Church, Lejre Municipality

Originating in a Romanesgue church from the 13th century, later expanded with a Gothic tower, it owes its current appearance to a renovation undertaken by Jørgen Hansen Koch in 1824.

after Johan Frederik Storck, who married Gamst's niece Charlotte Kund, in 1830, had received appointment as pastor at the church the previous year.

[3] The church building consists of a Romanesque nave, a Gothic tower from the 15th century and an eastern cruciform extension with chancel and apse from 1824.

The altarpiece features a tall, narrow painting by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, depicting the resurrected Jesus, in an arch-headed frame with gilded arcanthus ornamentation.

In the northeastern corner of the graveyard stands a memorial to the farmer Lars Pedersen from Hyllingeledsgården, who died in 1833, It was erected by N. A. Holten to designs by the prominent sculptor Hermann Ernst Freund.

Sæby Church
Oluf Rosenkrantz seen on a painting in the church
Lars Pedersen's headstone