The decision to build a new church followed a bishop's visitation in 1794, when Bishop Olof Wallqvist inspected the parishes of Urshult and Almundsryd and raised the question of replacing their old wooden churches. Plans were drawn up in 1802 by the Överintendentsämbetet, the royal office responsible for public building design, intended for use in both parishes.
Construction of the present church took place between 1828 and 1831, on a site north of the old medieval timber church, under the direction of master mason Sven Sjöblom of Karlshamn. The building was consecrated in 1832 by the rural dean Samuel Elmgren. It is built of granite and brick in a neoclassical style, with an elongated nave, a semicircular chancel to the east, a west tower and a sacristy on the north side. The tower is topped by an enclosed lantern with a clock and a crowning orb-and-cross finial.
Inside, the chancel wall is dominated by painted decoration. The original paintings date from 1831 and were created by Carl Strömberg of Karlshamn. In 1963 a fresco depicting the Second Coming of Christ was added by David Ralson, giving the chancel a mix of nineteenth- and twentieth-century decorative work.
Among the furnishings are a wooden font, a free-standing altar, and a combined altar-and-pulpit dating from 1860, alongside an older pulpit structure now used as an ambo. Much of the original box-style pew arrangement survives, and the organ gallery features an outward-curving central section decorated with a gilded lyre motif.
The church has had more than one organ. A twenty-stop instrument was built in 1861 by Carl August Johansson of Hovmantorp together with Johannes Magnusson of Lemnhult; its facade survives in the present organ, built in 1944 by A. Mårtensson's organ workshop in Lund and later renovated in 1961. A smaller mechanical chancel organ was added in 1973 by Åkerman & Lund Orgelbyggeri of Knivsta.