Kalvsviks kyrka

The present church was built in 1851–52 to designs by the architect Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander, with work overseen by master builder Jonas Elmqvist of Växjö. It was constructed in stone, rendered and limewashed, giving it the plain pale appearance typical of Swedish neoclassical churches of the period. Although completed and taken into use in 1852, it was not formally consecrated until 1861, by Bishop Henrik Gustaf Hultman.

Its predecessor was a medieval wooden church first mentioned in written sources in 1336, and thought by some scholars to share design similarities with the early thirteenth-century Granhult church, suggesting a possibly similarly early date of construction. In 1828 Bishop Esaias Tegnér inspected the old church and judged it too small for the growing parish, but a lack of funds meant building work did not begin until decades later. The medieval church, which stood roughly 300 metres away, was demolished once the new building was ready, and its furnishings were sold at auction.

The church's layout is typical of the style: a spacious nave leading to a rounded chancel at the east end, with a sacristy on the north side. The west tower has round-arched sound openings and a clock face, with a clock installed in 1883; it is topped by an enclosed lantern and a cross. Inside, the nave is covered by a wooden barrel-vaulted ceiling, and the chancel is marked off by an arch bearing a biblical text. A round window was added near the pulpit in 1908.

Among the older furnishings is a font decorated with carved mythical-beast reliefs, dated to the thirteenth century and evidently surviving from the earlier medieval church. The altarpiece, painted in 1857 by Johan Zacharias Blackstadius, depicts the mocking of Christ and is set within a pilastered altar surround. The pulpit, with its sounding board, is in a rounded Empire style with access from the sacristy. Stained glass in the chancel windows, designed by David Ralson, was made in 1991.

The church has had three organs: an original instrument of 1867 by Carl August Johansson of Hovmantorp, replaced in 1945, and again in 1971 by a mechanical organ built by Västbo Orgelbyggeri of Långaryd, which remains in use.