The medieval church that previously served Bosarp dated from the 1100s and stood about 500 metres from the present site. By the 1860s it was judged inadequate, and in 1867 it was demolished to make way for a new building on newly acquired land. Stone from the old church was reused in the new construction, a practical link between the two buildings that visitors can still sense today.
The new church was designed by architect Peter Christian Sörensen and consecrated on 9 August 1868. The builder, timber-master Elof Malmqvist of Lund, carried out the work under contract. Some fittings from the old church were transferred to the new one, including the font, although the font basin itself is of a later date.
The old churchyard suffered considerable disruption when the medieval church was demolished, but it survives today in good condition, with a memorial grove marked by a wrought-iron cross. The ruins of the old church itself remain on the original site, giving visitors a tangible sense of the parish's earlier history alongside the Victorian-era building.
Inside, the church holds two bells: one came from the old church at Gullarp, demolished in the nineteenth century, and the other was purchased in 1655 from Helsingør and recast in 1810. The pulpit, in Baroque style, dates from the seventeenth century and is decorated with carved figures representing the four evangelists—an striking survival predating the present building by two centuries.
The church's organ has its own history of change: an 1834 instrument by A. Svensson of Ystad was moved here in 1902, before being replaced in 1952 by a mechanical organ built by the Dutch firm D. A. Flentrop. The church seats around 250 people.