It is the former church for the Berg parish which is part of the Larvik prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Tunsberg.

The old church was likely built in the early 1100s in an Romanesque style of architecture.

Originally there were no windows in the building, but there was a small skylight in the gable of the chancel.

The ruins remained there until 1911, when some of the stones were taken from the walls and brought to several local farms to be used there.

[4] After many years as a ruin, it was decided that they old building should be restored for historical purposes.

On the north wall hangs an epitaph about Dorthe Christensdatter and her family.