The church was built after the parishioners of Gullered rejected a proposal to merge their church with that of neighbouring Hössna, choosing instead to construct their own new building. King Carl XIV Johan personally approved the architect's drawing in 1843, and the sources differ slightly on the architect's name, with one crediting J. Carlberg and another Fredrik Blom. The building is considered one of the diocese's finest representatives of the Empire style, recognisable by its rounded chancel end and lantern-topped tower.
Stone for the new church is said to have been partly taken from the earlier medieval church at Tissered, whose ruined site nearby is now used for occasional summer services following restoration in 1938. The history of the parish's earlier churches is not entirely certain: a stone or wooden church may have stood at Tissered from as early as the eleventh century, and the sources note some uncertainty over whether the later wooden church at Gullered itself dated from medieval times.
Among the church's furnishings is a sandstone font carved in the thirteenth century, apparently made of two dissimilar parts that may not originally have belonged together. A seventeenth-century pulpit was brought from the older wooden church, and a medieval iron chandelier is, according to tradition, a war trophy. The altarpiece dates from the 1840s, though fragments of an older, seventeenth-century altarpiece also survive.
Three bells have their own histories: a small medieval bronze bell, undated but decorated with crosses and symbols possibly including a founder's mark, is displayed in the chancel window; a bell of 1824 carries a biblical inscription in Swedish; and a larger bell of 1920, funded by a parishioner, commemorates the clergy and churchwardens of the time. The church also holds older plate, including a silver chalice of 1796 with a gilded interior, an 1848 silver wafer box, and a rare thirteenth-century painted pine offertory chest, said to be the oldest item in the church.
An organ built in 1873 by Svante Johansson of Liared originally served the church; its pipework was replaced in 1931 while the earlier facade was retained. It is reportedly still playable but in poor condition, and a digital organ is now used instead.