Norra Vi kyrka

Archaeological and documentary evidence suggests at least two earlier churches once stood here. The first was probably a timber church, thought to have burned down in the 13th or 14th century, after which a stone church was built; whether that building had a tower is uncertain, as its bells reportedly hung in a separate bell tower. Following a critical episcopal inspection, the medieval church was condemned, and the present building was constructed between 1771 and 1774 by master mason Måns Månsson and master builder Petter Andersson of Linköping, with the new church consecrated in 1775.

Parts of the medieval structure survived the rebuilding, notably the south wall and the Ribbinghof burial chapel, an unusual two-storey vault built around 1700 for the county governor and general Axel von Schaar, whose upper level opens onto the nave. The chapel was retained when the church was reconstructed and still contains von Schaar's elaborately decorated copper sarcophagus.

The church itself is a rectangular nave with a three-sided chancel to the east, a sacristy to the north, and the two-storey burial chapel to the south. Its west tower carries a multi-stage dome with a lantern, while the nave has a mansard roof and the sacristy a hipped roof. Interior features include a wooden barrel-vaulted ceiling and a raised chancel floor. A brown marble plaque above the tower entrance, presented by the incumbent priest Lars Kraft, once recorded the names of the king, governor, bishop and clergy along with the dates of the church's construction.

Among the furnishings, a 17th-century wooden font carved with vine motifs survives from the earlier church, as does the pulpit, donated in 1646 by Märta Ribbing of the local Ribbingshov estate, though its current pulpit basket and back panel date from 1790. The altarpiece, depicting the Ascension of Christ, is by an unknown artist and was given in 1774 by Major Frederich Ridderborg, along with an antependium of silk embroidered with gold and silver thread.

The church has had a succession of organs since the 18th century, including instruments linked to nearby Rumskulla and Kisa churches, with the visible organ case dating from 1793 even though the mechanism behind it has been rebuilt more than once; the current organ dates from the 1990s.