Nokian kirkko ja Maatialan pappila

English translation (from the Finnish)

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Description

The Nokia round church forms a landscape-defining and prominent landmark on a high esker, along an important waterway and an old road. The church landscape includes the cemetery on the top of the esker, enclosed by a stone fence, and the yard of Maatiala parsonage on the shore of Pyhäjärvi.

The church building, on the edge of the Nokia urban area, stands on the steep-sided Viikinharju, which is overgrown with pine forest, between Vihnusjärvi and Pyhäjärvi, along the old Turku-Hämeenlinna road. The old road alignment, which dates back to the Middle Ages, follows the boundaries of the landscape at the edge of the field and the esker. The round church of the 1830s, with a tower on the west side, is neoclassical in style.

The cemetery, enclosed by a stone wall, contains the Brakel family burial chapel of 1843 and, in the retaining wall of the war heroes' graves, the Spåre family burial vault. At the north corner of the cemetery there is a brick dissection room, a log stable-storehouse, and a mortuary designed by Yrjö Waskinen from the 1920s. On the edge of the esker there is also a Jugend-style cantor's official residence with its outbuildings, completed in 1908.

South of the church, on the shore of Pyhäjärvi, is the former Maatiala manor and official farm, now operating as a parsonage, whose Empire-style main building dates from 1839. The well-preserved yard of Maatiala has, on both sides of the residential yard, two symmetrically placed red-ochre painted tupa buildings, a pakari and a residential building, which also apparently date from the early 19th century. On the east side of the parsonage, on its former fields, is the so-called new cemetery.

History

The Nokia stone church was completed in 1838 according to drawings prepared in the Intendentinkonttori. The church of the then Pirkkala parish was built on lands donated by the nearby Viikki manor. The parish was divided into two parts in 1922, and North Pirkkala was renamed Nokia in 1938.

The sacristy of the church was opened into the church space as a choir in 1904, to designs by architect Josef Stenbäck. The church interior has been repaired on several occasions. A thorough renovation was carried out in 1974 to designs by architect S. Rihlama. The cemetery beside the church was consecrated for use in 1842.

Maatiala parsonage was possibly a medieval rälssitila that was subjected to taxation in the 16th century. In the late 17th century the estate was formed into the vänrikinpuustelli of the Porin rykmentti. The present main building was built in 1839 by Court of Appeal councillor Lönnblad while he was living on the estate as a tenant. The building housed a children's home in 1918-1920 and, for the next couple of years, also an evangelical folk high school. It was leased to the North Pirkkala parish in 1923 as the vicar's parsonage.