In 1671, the seaside village of Larvik was established as a
kjøpstad (market town). Soon after this,
Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve applied to the King for permission to build a church in the new town. The new church was
consecrated on 6 January 1677. The building was constructed as a
long church using yellow brick. In 1706, the exterior was covered with a yellow plaster. In 1742, a
sacristy was built on the southern end of the building. In 1762, a
church porch with a large clock/bell tower was built at the main entrance to the
nave. In 1814, this church served as an
election church (). Together with more than 300 other parish churches across Norway, it was a polling station for elections to the 1814
Norwegian Constituent Assembly which wrote the
Constitution of Norway. This was Norway's first national elections. Each
church parish was a constituency that elected people called "electors" who later met together in each county to elect the representatives for the assembly that was to meet in
Eidsvoll later that year. From 1859 to 1864, the church was rebuilt according to drawings by architect
Christian Heinrich Grosch. This included a new
neo-Gothic altarpiece and
pulpit, new
pews, and new second floor seating galleries. The most important change during this renovation was that external buttresses were built into the exterior walls in order to reinforce them. In 1906, the sacristy was enlarged. In the 1970s, the basement under the church was converted into a church hall. ==Gallery==