The present church replaced a small medieval timber church about half a kilometre to the west, at the Stommen farm site, where the old churchyard and marked outline of the building can still be seen. That earlier church, built of fine birch logs, had a typical medieval plan with a rectangular nave and narrower chancel, a timbered porch and a freestanding bell tower later built into the structure. In 1896 the old church, its bell tower and organ were offered for sale by auction, but the bid received was rejected as too low, and the church was demolished with royal permission the same year.
The new church was built in a pronounced Neo-Gothic style using wedge-cut granite, with a pointed tower spire, lancet cast-iron windows, buttresses, a rose window and an octagonal chancel projection. It was built by master builder Johan Alfred Westling of Stenstorp, though he died shortly before its completion; the tower rises to around 45 metres. The church was consecrated in February 1896 by the newly appointed Bishop of Skara, Ernst Jakob Keijser.
Several furnishings were carried over from the old medieval church, including a medieval door now kept in the porch, a font dated to around 1300, a pulpit from 1666, and an altarpiece from about 1700. During renovation work in 1927–1928 the altarpiece was given a new frame by Allan Berglund and reinstalled, and the older pulpit was refurbished and returned to the church interior, having previously stood in the tower.
Among the church's more unusual furnishings is a glass chandelier said to have been donated by a former Russian prisoner of war, known locally as "Ivan", who settled in the parish with his Swedish wife in the early nineteenth century after being brought to Sweden during the 1808–1809 war and later released.
The interior has been altered more than once. It originally had an open timber ceiling with visible beams and grey-yellow walls imitating ashlar stonework. Renovations in 1927–1928 and again in the 1950s toned down the Neo-Gothic character, concealing the open roof structure behind the current barrel-vaulted wooden ceiling and adding decorative painting. A further interior renovation took place in 2013–2014. The church's original organ, built in 1896 by Carl Axel Härngren, was later replaced internally in 1951 by a new organ built behind the old case by the Liared organ workshop.