Norra Hestra kyrka

An earlier timber church stood on the site, entirely clad in wooden shingles and consisting of a nave with a narrower chancel and a porch; its age is unknown, though records show it was damaged by fire in 1619 and gained a sacristy in 1724. That building was replaced by the present timber church, built in 1752–1753, which comprises a rectangular nave with a steep roof, an almost full-width straight chancel to the east, a sacristy to the north of it, and a porch to the west.

The interior was decorated in 1756–57 with paintings by the Borås artist Ditlof Ross (also recorded as Ditloff Ross), whose work survives in the painted altarpiece and gallery front, though only a few painted roof boards from his nave decoration remain, now kept in the church attic. In 1871 a new organ by Erik Adolf Setterquist of Örebro was acquired, prompting an extension of the church and gallery to the west along with fresh painting inside and out. A rebuilding was considered in the early twentieth century, but instead a restoration in 1925–26 aimed to recreate the church's appearance from before the 1871 changes.

A thorough renovation took place in 1969–70 (sources give slightly differing start dates of 1968 or 1969) under architect Per Rudenstam, during which conservators uncovered some of the original colour scheme. The church retains fittings from its construction period, including pews, gallery and altarpiece. A plain altar of untreated pine boards was added in 1969, and an oak font designed by Adolf Niklasson dates from 1961.　The four-sided pulpit, carved in 1659 in a late Renaissance style, is thought to have originally stood in Åsenhöga church before being moved here.　The current mechanical organ, built in 1969 by Hermann Eule of Bautzen, has thirteen stops across two manuals and pedal.

The detached bell tower beside the church dates from the seventeenth century and houses three bells. The middle bell was cast in the sixteenth century and once served as the main bell; the smallest bell was cast in 1783, possibly by the Jönköping founder Elias Fries Thoresson, and was bought in 1830 from Svenljunga church after a new bell frame was built in 1829. The largest bell was cast in 1951 by M & E Ohlsson's bell foundry, coinciding with the introduction of electric bell-ringing in 1952.