The current church was built to designs by the architect Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, replacing an earlier timber church thought to date from medieval times, which was itself rebuilt in 1726. The stone building has a rectangular nave with a three-sided chancel to the east and a west tower, with a sacristy attached to the south of the chancel. Its walls are finished in white roughcast render, and the roofs are covered in small slates.
A substantial renovation took place in 1943–44 under the architect Axel Forssén, during which the tower and sacristy were rebuilt, giving the church much of its present external appearance.
Among the church's furnishings is a soapstone font dating from the 13th century, though only the lower part of its bowl is original; the upper section was later replaced with reconstituted stone. A Norwegian crucifix, said to date from around the 14th century, is also preserved in the church, along with a pulpit from the 18th century that was repaired or completed in the 1850s.
The altarpiece is a notable survival of provincial Baroque craftsmanship, made in 1714 by the sculptor Nils Falk and painted by Anders Lingh and his son Jacob. It originally stood in the old church at Högsäter and was moved to Rännelanda in 1909 when that church was demolished; Rännelanda's own earlier altarpiece, from 1854, was transferred at the same time to Lerdal's church.
The organ facade on the west gallery survives from an 1895 instrument, while the pneumatic mechanism installed in 1944 reuses some components from the older organ. It was renovated and its stops reorganised in 2009.