Edshults kyrka

The present church was constructed between 1836 and 1838 to the south of Edshult manor (säteri), replacing a medieval wooden church that had stood since perhaps as early as the 1200s or 1300s. It is built of stone, in a neoclassical style, with a tower and sacristy. Inside, pale grey walls and large round-arched windows give the church a light, airy character. Above the altar hangs an altarpiece painted by Ludvig Frid in 1877.

The earlier medieval church, originally a three-aisled timber building serving as the manor's private chapel, was known for rich painted decoration from the first half of the 14th century. Shortly after the new church opened, the old building was demolished and its materials and furnishings were sold at auction, scattering the pulpit, altar rail, paintings and sculptures across the surrounding district. A medieval Madonna sculpture of northern French origin, once part of the old church, was later rescued and is now held by the Swedish History Museum, regarded as one of the finest surviving works of its kind from the 14th century. Other fittings met humbler fates: painted planks were reused in stable stalls and a poorhouse woodshed, the altar rail became a pigsty fence, and the pulpit reportedly ended up as a henhouse or dog kennel.

A model of the old shingle-clad timber church can be found in a meadow outside the current churchyard, on the other side of the road, giving visitors a sense of what once stood nearby. About 100 metres to the south-west of the old church site are the remains of a defensive stronghold, Edshult's borg.

Inside the present church, a smaller worship space seating around 90 was created in the eastern part of the building in the mid-1950s. It houses a restored altar cabinet from the old church, along with a painted panel also rescued from the earlier building, and a large iron-bound chest once used to store the church silver.

Among the furnishings is an oak altar cabinet with limewood fittings dating from the early 16th century, of unrecorded authorship, along with a bridal chair (brudstol) preserved from the old church and a brass font dated 1672. The church also has two organs of note: a mechanical organ built in 1843 by Sven Nordström, later restored in 1997, and a smaller positive organ built in 1879, originally likely a domestic instrument, which has been modified and renovated several times since.