The church's origins go back further than its current fabric suggests. A stone church was built in 1672 to replace an older, dilapidated timber church, and was consecrated in December 1675 by the Bishop of Växjö, Jonas Johannis Scarinius. That building stood for over two centuries before undergoing significant enlargement in the 1880s, when a sacristy was added to the north and a west tower was built, designed by the architect Fredrik Ekberg and constructed under builder Anders Pettersson.
Disaster struck in 1904, when fire severely damaged the church. It was rebuilt between 1904 and 1906, reusing the surviving old walls, which explains why the structure visitors see today combines older masonry with early twentieth-century rebuilding work.
Beneath the choir lies a burial vault containing twenty-three coffins, a reminder of the church's long use as a parish burial place by local families of standing. Inside, five coats of arms and seven brass chandeliers add to the historic character of the interior.
Among the furnishings, the altarpiece depicting the Descent from the Cross was painted by the local district painter C.J. Rolander of Klevshult. The stone font is plain and undecorated, while an oak chest in the choir, covered with iron plates and dated 1797, predates the fire and survived it. The church bells were cast by Beckman & Co after the 1904 fire, replacing those lost in the blaze.
The church also has a modest organ history: an 1876 instrument by Salomon Molander & Co of Gothenburg was followed in 1905 by a mechanical organ built by Johannes Magnusson, also of Gothenburg, installed as part of the post-fire rebuilding.