The church is believed to have been built during the later medieval period as a rectangular building with a freestanding wooden bell tower. Rebuilding work in the 1780s and again in 1834 gave the interior its present neoclassical character.
Beneath the church floor lie brick-vaulted burial chambers containing the remains of noble families dating from the 1500s and 1600s. Outside the church stands the Mörner family burial chapel, said to hold 22 coffins belonging to members of the Mörner family, including provincial governors and a government minister. The churchyard also contains graves associated with the Gyllenkrok family and other notable individuals.
Among the furnishings, the font is reported to date from the 1100s and bears a runic inscription referring to its carving at Djuraberg; it is said to have been sold at one point before being returned to the church in 1943. The pulpit, in Renaissance style, is attributed to a Danish craftsman working in 1652, with painted decoration added later by Torbern Röding. The pews and gallery, also Renaissance in style, date from the 1600s, and the gallery front and nearby pew ends carry richly decorated paintings said to have been executed in 1751.
Other notable furnishings include a wooden chest thought to date from the 1300s or 1400s, a large bell from the 1500s kept in the porch after reportedly falling in 1947, an eighteenth-century floor clock attributed to a Växjö clockmaker, and several memorial tablets and epitaphs commemorating local noble families. The altarpiece, depicting Christ at Gethsemane, is said to have been painted and donated by a member of the Mörner family.
The church has had several organs over the years, including instruments built in the 1880s and 1920s, with the current mechanical organ dating from 1966.