The oldest parts of the building form the western section, remnants of a medieval brick church with a Romanesque plan and a narrower chancel. Halland was under Danish rule when the church was built, and Danish was spoken in the parish, which for a time also included the island of Anholt. The red bricks are traditionally said to have been fired near the nearby farm of Munkagård, associated with Dominican, or according to another account Cistercian, monks; sources differ on which order was involved. A few of the old bricks are reportedly still visible in the sacristy.
The church stood unplastered until 1804. Between 1804 and 1806 it was substantially rebuilt: the old chancel and porch were demolished, the building was extended eastwards, and the windows were enlarged. The original wooden bell tower, once painted red, was replaced between 1810 and 1813 by the sturdy stone tower that still dominates the west end, topped with a curved lantern roof. Further changes followed in the 1850s, including buttressing of the tower and the addition of a north sacristy, with later renovations in the early twentieth century and again in 1932 and 1972.
Inside, the whitewashed nave is covered by a wooden barrel vault. Little survives of the medieval font beyond its limestone base; the current shaft and basin are said to date from 1613, matching a recorded episcopal visit that year. A weathered wooden crucifix from the 1500s hangs on the south wall, its simple cross unadorned. The neoclassical pulpit and altarpiece, both from the mid-1800s, were made by the same craftsman, Carl Nilsson of Ullared, working from designs by the architect Johan Fredrik Åbom; the altar painting is a copy of Raphael's Transfiguration.
The church also holds a collection of chandeliers of varying sizes hung at different periods, a nineteenth-century votive ship, and vestments spanning from the mid-1800s to the twentieth century. Its two bells were cast in the 1700s, one later recast, and the organ, rebuilt in 1978, retains the façade of the parish's first instrument from 1859.