The chapel is thought to have been built around 1926, together with the separate, freestanding bell tower that stands beside it. Both structures reflect the modest, functional style typical of rural chapels built to serve small communities in this period.
Originally, Lumshedens kapell served solely as a chapel of rest for funerals. Since the early 2000s, it has also been used for regular church services, broadening its role within the local parish.
Architecturally, the chapel is simple in form: a single rectangular nave aligned east–west, with its entrance at the western gable end. There is little ornamentation described in available records, in keeping with its practical origins as a burial chapel rather than a grand parish church.
Visitors interested in vernacular wooden church architecture in Dalarna may find the chapel and its freestanding bell tower a modest but characterful example of early twentieth-century rural ecclesiastical building.