A church has stood on this spot in Glemminge since the twelfth century. The original building was a small Romanesque stone church, but by the late nineteenth century the growing parish wanted something larger and more modern. The old church was demolished and replaced by the present brick building, designed in a Gothic-imitating style with a tower and a three-sided chancel, which was consecrated in 1900.
In 2020 the church's tall spire was found to be in such poor structural condition that it risked collapse. The parish received permission to remove it, and a lower roof, designed by architect Erika Martin, was completed in 2023, giving the church a notably different silhouette from photographs of a century earlier.
Several fittings from the earlier medieval church survive inside. A stone font dates from the twelfth century, and there is a medieval bronze censer and a fifteenth-century crucifix. The pulpit dates from 1637 and depicts the Evangelists and Christ on its panels, with a matching sounding-board above showing a dove amid gilded foliage.
Among the more unusual furnishings is a carved figure of John the Baptist, made by Mathias Stenberg of Ystad in 1739; for many years this served, somewhat unconventionally, as the church's font before the older stone font was returned to use.
Built into the churchyard wall is the Glemminge Stone, a runestone incorporated into the eastern boundary wall — a reminder that the site's significance predates the Christian church itself. The current organ was built in 1899 by Johannes Magnusson of Gothenburg, replacing an earlier instrument from 1855.