It is one of the churches for the Lardal parish which is part of the Larvik prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Tunsberg.

Two of the decorative portal planks from this church have been preserved at the Museum of Cultural History, Oslo for a long time.

The new building was a wooden long church with a rectangular nave and a smaller chancel on the east end.

The church was owned by the Count of Larvik until it was sold to the congregation in 1764.

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.