The white, stone structure was built in the Basilica[citation needed] style in 1702 to the designs of architect Morten Jørgensen Bjørnør.

By the year 1700, just 10 years later, it was described as being in poor condition and dilapidated, and so (in 1702) the present day stone church was constructed, approximately 300 metres (980 ft) west of the previous location.

In 1884, the nave was extended by 12 metres (39 ft) to the west using plans drawn up by the architect Ole Falck Ebbell and at the same time, a new bell tower was constructed at the west end of the church.

[8] Together with more than 300 other parish churches throughout Norway, it served as a polling station for the country's first national elections to the 1814 Norwegian Constituent Assembly which was responsible for writing the Constitution of Norway.

Each ecclesiastical parish was a constituency which selected "electors" who later met together, in each county, to choose the representatives for the assembly that was to meet at Eidsvoll Manor later that year.