Västlands kyrka

By around 1800 the parish, then encompassing both Tolfta and Västland, was already pressing for a new church, but it took until 1847 for drawings to be submitted to the national building authority. The plans, prepared by the Gävle county architect Carl Axel Setterberg, closely followed designs Johan Fredrik Åbom had made for Hamrånge church in Gästrikland, which the authority had previously rejected. Setterberg made changes, notably to the bell tower, and although the tower design was again refused approval, it was built anyway when construction began in the mid-1850s. The church came into use in 1858 and was consecrated in 1862.

Because it was sited on a gravel ridge, the church runs north–south rather than the more usual east–west, with its choir facing south. The tall nave has a wooden barrel vault, while the narrower side aisles have flat ceilings. Restoration work in 1922–1924 introduced stained-glass windows in the choir by the Stockholm firm Neuman & Vogel, and further remodelling in the 1950s and 1962, overseen by architects Ärland Nooren (also spelled Noreen) and Carl Hampus Bergman, added a bridal chamber and a small chapel beneath the gallery known as the Ansgar Chapel, along with new copper doors at the tower portal.

The earlier medieval brick church, built in the early 1300s a few hundred metres to the north, survived Russian raids in 1719 that burned its roof, though its vaulted interior and paintings survived unwhitewashed, unusually for the period. It was eventually demolished in 1855 as the new church took shape; the old churchyard site remains as meadow land today.

Several objects passed from the old church to the new. The font, of a type found elsewhere in Uppland and along the Norrland coast, dates from the late 1400s; it had gone missing and was reportedly found doing service as a water trough on a farm before being identified in 1909 and eventually returned to the church in 1936. A late-medieval crucifix now serves as the altarpiece, while an earlier Baroque altarpiece, a gift from ironworks owner Hans Gabriel Enander, was later sold and is now on deposit at the Swedish History Museum. The current pulpit dates from the church's construction, though parts of its 1708 predecessor survive in the Ansgar Chapel.

The church also holds an unusually large number of chandeliers—fifteen in brass or bronze and three in crystal—mostly donated during the 1800s and 1900s, along with an organ whose façade and some pipework trace back to an instrument built by Olof Hedlund in 1747, itself replacing an installation said to date from the early 1500s.