Plans to enlarge the old medieval church had been discussed since the mid-1700s, and in 1779 a decision was even taken to extend it with a larger nave, using designs prepared by Lars Wickman. For reasons unrecorded here, this scheme was never carried out, and parishioners continued to make do with the old building for several more decades.
It was not until 1854 that a definitive decision was reached to build afresh rather than adapt the medieval structure. Construction of an entirely new church began in 1859–1860 to designs by Axel Nyström, in the neoclassical style typical of the period. The building has changed relatively little since then: a nave with a straight-ended chancel to the east, a sacristy behind, and a sturdy west tower topped with a pyramidal roof, a small lantern and a spire bearing a cross.
Among the church's furnishings is a font attributed to the so-called Njudung group of stonecarvers, dated to the second half of the twelfth century, making it far older than the current building. A triumphal crucifix is dated to the sixteenth century, and there is a separate cross with a shroud cloth and crown of thorns that once served as an altar ornament. The current altarpiece, depicting the Good Shepherd, was painted in 1977 by Sven-Bertil Svensson of Mörbylånga.
The pulpit, with its sounding board, dates from the time of the church's construction and is decorated with gilded symbols; behind it a painted drapery motif shows the face of Christ. On the south wall hangs a copy of Raphael's Sistine Madonna, painted by J. Henrik Beck.
The church's earlier organ history is of some interest: in 1759 the parish acquired a nine-stop organ that had previously stood in Kristine church, Jönköping, before being bought from Eksjö church and installed by Jonas Solberg. The present organ dates from 1862, built by Johan Nikolaus Söderling of Gothenburg, and was renovated and enlarged in 1961 while retaining its original facade.