The arched opening between the nave and the tower suggests that the church was built in the 12th century, while the pointed arches in most of the church's window openings point to major alterations which probably took place around the middle of the 13th century.

Shortly before the year 1700, the church tower was in such bad shape to structural problems that the bells were taken down and put in a casting pool.

By 1732 the church was in very poor condition and that same year, the tower was struck by lightning and heavily damaged.

After the bishop's visit in 1881, an engineering report was prepared which left little doubt that something drastic had to be done because the church structure was a significant problem.

[4] Kristen Steffensen Bang was the priest at Romedal in 1643, when he joined with Kjeld Stub to set up the first printing press in Norway, located in Oslo.

Pastor Bang wrote copiously to feed his printing press and died a pauper in 1678 at the age of 98.

The press is most famous for printing the Aggerhus-Acter which were accounts of the progress of the ongoing Gyldenløve War with Sweden.