Around 1690, the nave was extended several meters to the west to increase the capacity of the church.

In 1887, the church was struck by lightning which caused a fire which burned and badly damaged the building, leaving the stone walls, but destroying the roof and interior furnishings.

From 1946-1947, the church was rebuilt in a historically accurate manner by the architect John Tverdahl.

[1][3][4] In 2019, archaeologists from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research using large-scale high-resolution georadar technology, determined that a 17-metre (56 ft) long Viking ship was buried near this church.

They estimate the ship's age as over 1,000 years (from either the Merovingian or Viking periods).

A similar burial was found previously by NIKU archaeologists in 2018, the Gjellestad ship.