The white, stone church was built in a Romanesque cruciform design in the year 1140 using plans drawn up by an unknown architect.

[1][2] The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1328, but the church construction has been dated to approximately the year 1140.

The Romanesque stone church originally had a rectangular nave and a narrower, square chancel.

A tower over the new western entrance was also constructed during this expansion project.

Each church parish was a constituency that elected people called "electors" who later met together in each county to elect the representatives for the assembly that was to meet in Eidsvoll later that year.