A church is thought to have stood on this hill since early medieval times. Its predecessor was a stone building with a detached bell tower and, notably, painted ceiling decorations created in 1730 by Christian von Schönfeldt. When that older church was demolished in 1864 to make way for the present building, the painted boards were sold off and scattered; some 21 of them were later acquired by Gothenburg's city museum in 1929 and have since passed into the care of the Bohuslän Museum.
The current whitewashed stone church was built in 1864 to designs by the architect Ernst Jacobsson, in a style typical of the period. Its most distinctive feature is an unconventionally designed tower, topped with a tall spire above a lantern, itself crowned by a cross resting on a globe. Inside, the church is light and white, with an exposed roof structure adding to the airy feel.
A significant renovation took place in 1937 under Axel Forssén, during which the church was actually shortened: around a third of the nave was removed at the eastern end, and a new chancel wall with an apse was built in its place.
Among the furnishings, the altarpiece from 1875 depicts the Last Supper, while the altar also houses a medieval crucifix. A carved wooden sculpture of Christ as the Man of Sorrows dates from the 1500s, and there is a brass christening dish from the 1600s along with a wooden chandelier of the same period. A hand-embroidered altar cloth dates from 1866.
The organ, installed in 1964 and built by Grönvalls orgelbyggeri, incorporates two stops salvaged from an earlier 1877 instrument. Together with the organ at Ysby church, this is said to be the only surviving work of the organ builder Carl August Johansson.