Östra Tollstads kyrka

The present church was built between 1885 and 1886, replacing a medieval stone church that had stood roughly 200–300 metres away (sources differ slightly on the exact distance and direction). That earlier building dated from around 1200, with a nave and narrower apsidal chancel built of limestone and granite rubble, and a west tower added at an unknown later date. A timber extension, sometimes called the "new church", had been added to its north side in 1730–31 to accommodate a growing congregation, but the whole medieval structure was demolished once its replacement was complete.

Unusually, the new church was not built on the traditional east–west axis but runs north–south, and it was sited on a moraine hill rather than on the old church's ground. Designed in a Gothic Revival style attributed to the architect Fredrik Ekberg, it has a rectangular stone nave with tall narrow windows, external buttresses, and a tower with a slender spire at the north end, with a multi-sided chancel to the south. Restoration work in 1927 and further significant changes in 1956–58 shaped much of the interior as it appears today.

Among the fittings, the altarpiece depicting the Nativity was painted in 1813 by Pehr Hörberg, predating the current church and later given a Gothic Revival frame in the 1880s. An older altar cabinet survives from the 15th century, and a triumphal crucifix dated to around 1325–1350, once part of the medieval church, is now kept at the Östergötland county museum rather than on site. The altar table and a chancel carpet designed by Barbro Nilsson, woven at the Märta Måås-Fjetterström workshop in Båstad, date from the 1956 restoration. The church bells were cast in 1732 by Magnus Hultman of Norrköping.

The church's organ was built in 1886 by Carl Elfström of Ljungby (given as Linköping-area craftsman in one source), a mechanical instrument of 18 stops that remains a notable feature of the building. A smaller mechanical chancel organ was added in 1985 by Mårtensson's organ workshop.

In the churchyard lies the writer Bengt Danielsson, who took part in the 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition. Nearby, at Klockaregården, is one of Östergötland's larger Iron Age burial fields, a reminder that this site has drawn human activity for many centuries before the present church was raised.