Architect Paul Due provided the design resulting in the church having a Neo-Gothic cruciform style.

This medieval chapel was built of brick and macadam in the late 1200s as an annex to Eidsberg church.

The altarpiece was donated to the church in 1651, and was performed by craftsman Christopher Ridder (d.1695), who also designed the pulpit.

[7] [8] On 22 November 1808, Norwegian-Danish officer Olaf Rye, made the first recorded ski jump in history at the site of Lekum gård (Lekum farm), which is located about 300 metres NorthWest from Eidsberg Church.

Soldiers made a temporary artificial snow piled improvised ski jumping hill somewhere on the farm ground, exact location unknown, with first ever WR at 9.4 metres (31 ft).