According to tradition, a wooden church stood here from the early 1100s, later replaced by a brick church begun in the early 1200s, parts of which — the chancel gable and north wall — survive within the present structure. The building suffered destruction during the Northern Seven Years' War of the 1560s, after which the nave was lengthened westward, with a sacristy added in 1778.
On 1 September 1803 fire swept through the church and surrounding village, destroying the bell tower, rectory and several farms, though the church's stone walls remained standing. Reconstruction began the following year to designs by the architect Olof Tempelman, who also planned a western extension with a tower; this addition, along with a separate room known as the Gudmorshus on the north side, was completed in the 1830s.
The altarpiece and the decoration on the chancel's east wall were created by Carl Strömberg. The Gudmorshus is described as an unusual feature: a dedicated room historically used by women during churching rites and baptisms, worth seeking out as a distinctive survival of older parish customs.
Among the church's older furnishings is a crucifix dating from around 1500, and a bell that was recast after the 1803 fire but is said to originate from a bell first cast in Åhus around the year 1100. Two carved figures depicting Moses and John the Baptist once formed part of a seventeenth-century altarpiece.
The church has had a succession of organs: an eighteenth-century instrument by Sven Ahlgren, a nineteenth-century organ by Andreas Åbergh, an early twentieth-century instrument from Mårtenssons orgelfabrik, and the current mechanical organ, built by the same firm in the mid-1960s.