The church was probably first built in the 1100s from rendered, whitewashed rubble and flint, and has been altered repeatedly since. The chancel received its vault in the 1300s, and the nave followed in the 1400s, around the time the lower part of the tower was begun. The upper stages of the tower date from 1797, a year that appears carved on the building alongside the initials WT, referring to Wiveka Trolle of Borgeby Castle, then patron of the church. In the early 1800s the medieval apse was demolished and a sacristy built to the east of the chancel; a further major rebuilding in 1868 introduced the round-arched nave windows still seen today, some with coloured glass in their upper lights.
A thorough restoration in 1986–87 added a new sacristy to the north, removed the doors between the porch and nave, and uncovered 15th-century ceiling paintings in the chancel that had long been hidden. The best-preserved decoration survives in the vault arches, where fragments of the evangelist symbols can still be made out, including a lion and an ox representing Mark and Luke. The exterior was rendered again and parts of the roof renewed in 2016.
The pulpit, dating from the 1600s, is considered the church's finest furnishing. It is decorated with alabaster reliefs, thought to have been made in the Netherlands, depicting New Testament scenes, and its base takes the form of an atlas figure — a column-like human shape, probably meant to represent Peter — supporting the ornate basket.
The font's sandstone bowl dates from the 1100s, though its base and small associated altar were added during the 1987 restoration. The altarpiece, installed in the 1868 rebuilding, includes a plaster copy of the well-known Christ statue by the Icelandic-Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen.
Among the bells, the larger has been recast twice, in 1771 and 1948, and bears an inscription noting it was donated by Wiveka Trolle; the smaller bell dates from 1505. The present organ was built in 1963 by Mårtenssons Orgelfabrik of Lund, replacing an earlier instrument from 1886, and a digital organ and small chancel organ have since been added. A processional cross in gilded copper is a copy of an 11th-century original, the so-called Irene cross, now kept at the Historical Museum in Lund.