By the late nineteenth century, Kvänum's fortunes had changed with the coming of the railway, which drew the settlement away from its old medieval church roughly a kilometre away and created a new station community. The growing population needed a church of its own, and the present stone building was raised in 1867.
The church was built by master builder Anders Pettersson, working from designs attributed to architect Axel Fredrik Nyström, though one source also credits architect Fredrik Bergström as a co-designer. The building consists of a nave with a south-west to north-east orientation, a tower with entrance at the south-west end, and an attached sacristy to the north-east. A gilded inscription on the facade, a common decorative touch for churches of this period, adds a modest flourish to the exterior.
Inside, the font base dates back to around 1200, a survival from the earlier medieval church, though its bowl is a replacement made in 1928. The building has seen several changes over the years, including redecoration in 1890 and a substantial renovation in 1948 that saw the exterior render repaired and repainted.
The churchyard was laid out alongside the new building and contains numerous graves sharing the same surnames, suggesting many local families remained rooted in the parish across generations. Unusually, a good number of the memorials commemorate women, some with distinctive and evidently costly designs, including one stone bearing an etched image.
The church has had more than one organ over its history: an early instrument by Carl Axel Härngren of Lidköping was installed in the early 1900s, later replaced by a mechanical organ built in 1953 by the Danish firm Th Frobenius & Sønner, with a further chancel organ added in 1980.