Klosterkyrkan - Saint Peter's monastery church

Saint Peter's monastery church (Klosterkyrkan) is one of the most amazing and wonderful parts of Medieval Lund. It was built in 12th century as a part of Benedictine Saint Peter's and Saint Maria's monastery. In the 14th century it was renovated and got walls with bricks, but the foundation with grey stones is left from the original church.

The Monastery church is one of the two churches in Lund survived the Danish Reformation (Lund Cathedral is another one). 

Nowadays it's just the church what remains from the monastery. Other buildings were demolished in 16th century during the reformation. The marks on a facade show the place where were the monastery wall before.

The interior is just amazing with all the details and decor

 

Inside the church you can find traces left from the Middle Age. Like this room.

Note the cross vault on the ceiling. It wasn’t built like the small closed room from the beginning, neither in the 12th century nor in the 14th century, during the rebuilding. That was instead a section of an open colonnade with cross vaults surrounded the whole courtyard within the monastery.

There were twelve nuns that walked within this colonnade during the Middle Ages.

There are many other small traces like this in Lund, left from the Middle Ages.  It’s not so easy to see them if you don’t know what and where to search for. These are the medieval traces when Lund was the Catholic centre of Scandinavia with 24 churches and four monasteries.