Vissefjärda kyrka

An earlier stone church, recorded in a drawing by Petrus Frigelius, stood here with a nave and straight-ended chancel, a north sacristy and a timber porch. A decision to build a replacement was taken in 1759, but disputes delayed the work for years; the new church was finally completed and consecrated in 1773 by Bishop Karl Gustav Schröder. Rather than following designs for a cross-shaped church prepared by the national Board of Works, the parish built to a local plan typical of the Kalmar region, using roughcast and limewashed granite. Parts of the older church were incorporated into the north wall.

The broad hall-like nave is covered by a barrel-vaulted wooden ceiling, painted pale blue, with white walls and a green cornice. The enclosed box pews are said to be largely original, as is the chancel seating. A wooden bell tower with a curved cap was erected the year after the church's consecration and still holds three named bells.

The most notable furnishing is the altarpiece, painted in 1795 by Pehr Hörberg and depicting the descent of Christ from the cross; it is set within a pilastered altar surround with a triangular pediment. The semicircular altar rail has turned baluster shafts, and the Empire-style pulpit with its sounding board dates from 1841, reached by stairs from the sacristy and decorated with gilded Christian symbols on its three panels.　　　

Among the church's smaller curiosities is a floor clock beneath the organ gallery, said to have been given to the church in 1776 by the parish's farmhands, whose names and home villages are recorded on an accompanying board. The church also holds two font basins: a red limestone font made in 1938 and an older oak font thought to date from the 17th century, next to which hangs an embroidered wall-hanging rich in religious imagery. The organ gallery itself, with its curved central section, dates from the time of the church's construction; the organ it houses has a complicated history, incorporating older pipework transferred from Kalmar Cathedral and later restoration work aimed at recreating its 19th-century sound.

A short distance from the churchyard, across the Lyckeby stream, stand a group of former church stables built in the mid-19th century and used until the 1930s; they now serve as a local heritage museum and are the venue for an annual midsummer pageant recalling episodes from the parish's history.