The settlement was first attested in 1332 in the papal tax lists under the name of Kyrchpech. In 1373 a certain Johann of Kirchpert was mentioned, fact that allows us to presume that a church already existed at that time. The information is completed by the Romanesque basilica plan with three naves, choir, semicircular apse and a tower on the west side – a fact that places the building of the church at the end of the 13th century. Since an apse chapel can be found at the end of the north aisle, we can assume that a similar one existed at the end of the northern side. The cross vaulted choir has a semi-calotte, and main nave, which is separated from the choir by a barrel vaulted chancel arch, acquired a ceiling. The west tower has four semicircular arches at the ground floor. A loft opening towards the nave through round arches can be found at the first floor, to which the access is made through a staircase inside the wall. There are three semicircular windows on the upper level of the main nave and similar openings can be found at the fourth floor of the tower. 

Around 1500 Chirpăr is mentioned among the free settlements of the Seat of Nocrich. Also, as in all the Saxon communities in Transylvania, the church was fortified. The western tower was raised and all the openings were turned into embrasures. At the last level was built a defense gallery supported by wooden consoles, and the western tower – if it existed – must had been walled up by three butresses, one on the center of the side and the other two on the visible corners. Therefore two entrances were opened on the aisles. 

Surprisingly the church itself doesn’t seem to have been strengthened with other defensive elements besides the ones on the tower. Instead, a polygonal curtain wall was built, with four corner tower and a perimeter wall passage covered by an oblique roof. The entrance to the precinct was made through the ground floor of the corner tower from the northwest side. A postern can be found on the south side of the curtain wall. 

Subsequently to these transformations, on the northern side a second precinct was built, including a wall passage and two towers on the free corners. At the end of the 19th century a part of the curtain wall of the exterior precinct was demolished, together with two towers from the ends, in order to make room for the school. In 1968 the semicircular tower from the southeast corner collapsed. 

In 1750 the organ built after the end of the 15th century was placed above the western loft. The actual organ is the work of Johannes Hahn from Sibiu and dates from 1778. The Baroque altar of the church was made in 1795 by Johann Folberth from Sighișoara. In 1800 the belfry received a pyramidal roof.