Voxtorps kyrka

The medieval church that once stood here consisted of a nave with a squared-off rectangular chancel, and had no tower; its two bells hung instead in a separate wooden bell tower. As the parish grew, this older building became too small, and after prolonged local debate the decision was taken to build entirely anew rather than extend the existing structure.

The present church was built of stone between 1841 and 1843 to designs by the architect Samuel Enander, and was consecrated on All Saints' Sunday 1845. It is built in a neoclassical style, with a rectangular nave, a rounded chancel to the east and a tower to the west, plus an attached sacristy on the north side. The roofs of the nave, chancel and tower are covered in copper, while the sacristy roof is shingled, and the tower is topped by an open lantern with a cross-orb finial. Inside, the barrel-vaulted hall church was altered in a 1930 renovation, when a north-facing window was bricked up and new floors laid; a medieval altar cabinet and font were repositioned against the north wall at that time. The two chancel windows on either side of the altar hold stained glass with biblical scenes made in 1930 by Albert Eldh.

Several older fittings survive from the medieval church or were later additions of note. A font dated to the twelfth century is attributed to the so-called Njudung group of Småland font carvers, and a processional crucifix some 335 centimetres tall is thought to date from the late twelfth century. Fragments of a medieval censer are also kept in the church, while a twelfth-century church chest from Voxtorp is now held at the Swedish History Museum rather than on site.

The altarpiece, framed by columns supporting a triangular pediment with a radiating sunburst motif, encloses a painting by Kilian Zoll from 1846 depicting a cross with a shroud and crown of thorns. A baroque altarpiece from the earlier church, donated in 1735 by the noblewoman Magdalena Eleonora Rosenstierna Liljehök of Edh, is also preserved. The pulpit dates from 1844, designed by Carl-Gustaf Blom-Carlsson, who was also responsible for the organ case; brass chandeliers donated in 1783, 1844 and 1951 hang above the pews, having been electrified in 1947.

The organ itself was built in 1852 by Johan Nikolaus Söderling, a mechanical instrument later fitted with a pedal division by Carl Elfström in 1877 and renovated by the Moberg brothers of Sandviken in 1959.