In a royal letter dating from December 1271, King Magnus Lagabøte expressed his satisfaction that the parishioners were going to replace the old wood church with a new stone one, and he urged the continuation and completion of the task.

These changes gave the church a neo-Gothic style and after they were completed, led to much dissatisfaction among the residents of Voss.

[11] The work carried on through the 1920s and 1930s before being interrupted by World War II and bad economic times.

These renovations included restoring the more original shape of the windows and bringing the whole church decor back to a pre-Reformation look.

The renovations continued after the war in the late-1940s and finally finishing in 1953, this time under the direction of the architect Georg Fischer.