Andebu church is a Romanesque stone church. The church has a rectangular nave and a lower and narrower choir, and a sacristy added later in the east and a wooden porch in the west. After the Reformation, the church building fell into ruin. In 1686 the church was restored and equipped with a gutter and the windows were enlarged.
The Arnadal church is a long church dating back to 1882 when it was built according to the drawings of Henrik Nissen. The church was extensively restored in the 1950s, and the sacristy was extended in 1979 and 1981.
The church of Ramnes is a long church dating from the 12th century. The heavy stone walls are the originals, except for the north-west corner. The sacristy and the porch were built next to the one-meter thick walls. At the beginning of the 17th century, the church was given a new tower. Most of the original equipment has disappeared, but the oldest part of the baptismal font dates from the beginning of the 13th century. The altarpiece with the communion motif and the pulpit with the carved fields are from the 17th century.
The church is probably from the 13th century and is one of the largest stave churches. In 1948-53 major modifications were made and the church was then given the design it has today. The new exterior of the church is based on assumptions and interpretations of what the church might have looked like in the early post-Reformation period. The nave contains remnants of painted medieval decorations, while the choir decorations were mainly rebuilt by Finn Kraft in 1959-64.
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