The church was built in Romanesque style in the second half of the 1100s, following the pattern typical of the period: a nave, a slightly lower chancel with a semicircular apse, and small, high-set windows. Its walls used a shell-wall technique, with rubble stone faced by dressed sandstone, a relatively costly material common to churches of the Luggude district at the time. The building is traditionally attributed to a craftsman known as the 'Mörarp Master', thought to have trained while working on Lund Cathedral.
Over the following centuries the church was enlarged and altered. Vaults were added to the chancel in the 1300s and to the nave in the 1400s, and the nave was extended westward in the early 1500s. The church's most unusual feature, its tower with gables facing north and south rather than the more usual east–west orientation, was built in the early 1600s. Porches were added at the north and south entrances around the same era, though the north porch was later converted into a burial chapel for the Rosensparre family in 1749, and the south porch was demolished during major rebuilding in 1835, when a new west entrance was opened through the tower.
Further changes followed: the tower gained a cross-set upper storey with a lantern in 1835, which was later removed in 1885 in favour of stepped gables, and the old lead roof was replaced with copper sheeting. A restoration in 1931 uncovered medieval wall paintings from the 1400s in the vaults of the apse, chancel and parts of the nave, which had been painted over after the Reformation, along with several blocked doorways and small original Romanesque windows. In 1954 the tower was simplified again, removing the 1835 additions to bring it closer to its earlier appearance.
Among the church's furnishings, the limestone font is the most notable object, carved with Romanesque reliefs depicting Christ as Majestas Domini, the Virgin Mary, the apostle Peter and various saints, and attributed to the same Mörarp Master associated with the church's construction. A triumphal crucifix from the 1400s depicts a suffering Christ, and the altarpiece was brought to the church in 1634.
The church also contains an organ originally built in 1895 by Åkerman & Lund of Stockholm, later replaced in 1938 by an instrument from the Danish firm Th Frobenius & Co, reflecting the building's continuing use and adaptation over the centuries.