A 19th-century Neo-Gothic church of fieldstone and brick, with a three-storey tower, a rib vault over the chancel and stained glass.
The Church of St Joseph in Ławy was built in the 19th century on the site of an earlier church of 1648, destroyed in the 18th century. The heritage register dates it to the last quarter of the 19th century and describes its style as Neo-Gothic. It was originally an Evangelical church.
The building stands in the centre of the village, on a rectangular plan, with a five-sided apse. On the west rises a four-sided, three-storey tower with a spire topped with a ball with a cross. The walls are of fieldstones, and brick was used in the corners, window frames, porch, cornice and gables of the nave. The gables are decorated with blind niches and pinnacles, and the windows have stepped, pointed-arch frames.
Above the nave is a raised wooden ceiling, and above the chancel a rib vault. At the back of the nave is a gallery. 19th-century pews, a chandelier and stained glass have survived. After the war the church was consecrated as a Catholic one, on 5 May 1947. Nearby, about 3 km further on, lies another former Evangelical church.
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