The church began as a Romanesque medieval building, likely dating from around 1200. Over the centuries it grew through several additions: a burial chapel was built onto the north side (sources differ on whether this was 1771 or closer to the 1780s), and a southern extension, known locally as the "new church", was consecrated in 1782 for the Ågerup estate's owning family, the Lillienberg family. The upper floor of the burial chapel originally opened into the church as a private gallery pew for the landowning family, and later became a sacristy.
A major rebuilding around the 1830s reshaped the interior: the brick vaulting was removed and replaced with barrel vaults, and the altar was moved from the eastern chancel to the middle of the north wall, giving the church its distinctive north-south orientation. The interior was remodelled again in the 1950s, reportedly to a design associated with cathedral architect Eiler Graebe, giving the church its present appearance.
Southeast of the church stands a freestanding bell tower rather than an integrated steeple; the church appears never to have had one. The current structure is thought to date from around the 1680s or early 1700s, incorporating reused timber from an earlier, decayed tower. It houses two bells: a larger bell, weighing around 500 kg, recast in the early 1700s by Lars Wetterholtz of Malmö after an earlier bell cracked, and a smaller bell of about 350 kg, donated in 1728 by a local district judge of the Lillienberg family. Sources differ slightly on the exact casting dates and bellfounder for the smaller bell. Until 1976 the bells were reportedly rung by hand.
Inside, visitors can see a sandstone font considered as old as the church itself, paired with a brass christening dish from the 1500s decorated with a relief of the Annunciation. A triumphal crucifix above the altar also dates from the 1500s, set beneath a canopy salvaged from an earlier combined altar-and-pulpit structure. The pulpit itself dates from the early 1600s, with older woodwork fragments, including panelled doors and pieces of a late-1500s altarpiece, surviving nearby. Four memorial banners commemorate members of the Lillienberg family.
A notable curiosity is a ship model hanging in the nave, of a kind more typical of coastal churches. According to local tradition, it was acquired by a parish priest from Höganäs who served here in the early twentieth century and wished the church to have such a ship, even though, unlike genuine votive ships offered in thanks for survival at sea, this one was purely decorative.
The church's first organ was installed in 1857 or 1875 (accounts vary) by a Malmö organ builder; it was replaced in 1960 by an instrument from a Danish workshop in Hillerød, which remains in use today.