The present, late Gothic structure was built between 1437 and 1488 by the ethnic German Transylvanian Saxon community at a time when the area belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary.

Consecrated as a Roman Catholic church, with St Margaret of Antioch as its patron saint, it became Lutheran following the Reformation.

The church registry of 1447 relates that a Father Christian from Mettersdorf (Dumitra) had filed a public protest against the Bishop of Weissenburg (Alba Iulia) "in porta ecclesiae parochialis beatae Margarethae virginis et martyris in oppido Medyes – at the door of the parochial church of the blessed virgin and martyr Margaret".

An archaeological survey of the building and its surroundings was conducted by the Romanian scientists Vasile Crișan and Mariana Beldie-Dumitrache in 1971 and 1972.

[5] The main altar, located in the choir of St. Margaret's church, is a late Gothic winged altarpiece, dated between 1480 and 1520.

[7] On the northern walls of the nave and north aisle, frescoes were discovered under layers of white paint, and partly restored.

[8] In the choir, eight grave slates are on display today, one of them commemorating the pastor, poet and humanist Christian Schesaeus (1535–1585).

The discovery of these medieval and early modern books and manuscripts was announced by Professor Adinel C. Dincă of Babeș-Bolyai University in 2022.