A church has stood in Arrie since the early Middle Ages, but almost nothing of that original building survives above ground except the lower part of the tower. When the medieval church was demolished in 1889, most of its materials were sold off, including the lead roofing, while a couple of wooden sculptures, bronze lion figures and old notice boards were passed to a museum collection in Lund for safekeeping.
The church seen today was built onto the surviving tower base, to designs by the Malmö architect Salomon Sörensen, and consecrated in October 1890. Because the tower remained, the project is technically regarded as a rebuilding rather than an entirely new church. It was built in a Gothic style, inside and out, with the stepped gables typical of Skåne churches, and its wooden fittings are of oak or painted to imitate oak, in a German Renaissance manner.
Several furnishings were carried over from the old church into the new one. The pulpit and font, both carved oak pieces from the sixteenth century, are among the more striking survivals, decorated with figures of the apostle Paul and the evangelists. A wooden relief showing Pontius Pilate washing his hands, part of the Passion story, dates from the early sixteenth century and is one of the church's older treasures.
Other notable objects include a richly worked font bowl, a bell said to date from 1594 still in use, and a copy of Thorvaldsen's figure of Christ on the chancel wall. The organ, built in 1890 by the Gothenburg firm Salomon Molander & Co, is a mechanical instrument original to the current building.
Arrie kyrka continues to serve for baptisms, weddings, funerals, concerts and occasional services, and seats around 200 people. It has also featured as a filming location for a Swedish television comedy series in the 2010s.