The present church was completed in 1841, replacing an older building that stood around three kilometres to the south, on the road towards Västraby-Ryningsholm. That earlier church was partly a Romanesque stone structure dating from the 1200s; it was demolished the year after the new church opened, and only a disused churchyard now marks its former site.
The 1841 building has a tower to the north and an apse-ended chancel to the south. Inside, the church presents a restrained, unified Empire-style interior, and much of the original fixed furnishings survive from its construction. The altarpiece, however, is older than the building itself: it dates from the 1600s and was brought over from the earlier church.
Among the church's furnishings, the most notable is a sandstone font dating from the early 1200s, attributed to the so-called Njudung Master, a named medieval sculptor associated with several fonts in the region. Like the altarpiece, the font originally stood in the old church before being moved to the new building.
The church has a small mechanical gallery organ built in 1841 by Sven Nordström of Norra Solberga, noted for its pleasing tone; it has since been altered and restored more than once, most recently in 1991. A separate mechanical chancel organ was installed in the 1990s, replacing an earlier instrument from the 1970s.
In the western part of the churchyard lies the grave of the Swedish artist and writer Albert Engström, who spent part of his childhood in the area, his father having been the local stationmaster in Hult.