The earliest known church here was a timber chapel built towards the end of the sixteenth century at Långasjömåla, some distance from the present site. The congregation later moved to Häradsbäck, where a new chapel went up in the mid-seventeenth century. In 1822 this building was so thoroughly rebuilt that it effectively became an entirely new church, constructed in the neoclassical style then in fashion.
The church is built of horizontal log timber, with a rectangular nave and a chancel to the east; a sacristy projects from the north side of the chancel. The exterior walls are clad in white-painted wooden shingles, and the roofs are covered in copper. A tower was added to the west end in 1826, largely absorbed into the body of the nave, topped by a square lantern typical of the period and crowned with an orb and cross. Inside, the barrel-vaulted ceiling and open hall-church layout are characteristic of Swedish rural churches of the era. Further renovations took place in 1927, 1962 and 1979.
Among the furnishings, the altarpiece, painted in 1841 by the Karlshamn artist Carl Strömberg, depicts the burial of Christ; the same artist decorated the rounded pulpit. The altarpiece is framed by a classical surround of two columns supporting a pediment crowned with a radiant sun motif. A richly carved font retains its baptismal bowl from the seventeenth century, and a crucifix on the south wall is the work of Hjalmar Råstorp.
A distinctive feature is the organ gallery, decorated with a painted series of the apostles in grisaille technique, and unusually incorporating a clock at its centre — fitted with an electric movement in 1962. The smaller of the church bells was cast in 1599, connecting the building audibly to its earliest origins even though the structure itself has been much rebuilt.
The church has had several organs over time, beginning with an 1850 instrument by Magnus Larsson Elmelin, later rebuilt and altered by other organ builders through the twentieth century; the case from the 1850 organ was retained in later rebuilds.