The first temple likely dates back to the late 9th century, although the earliest written record referring to the church of Santa Maria places it in the years 1184 and 1187, when a Benedictine priory dependent on the abbey of Amer was built there, according to a bull issued by pope Climent III.

At the end of the 15th century, after a period of decline, the prior moved to Amer, leaving a monk and a priest at El Coll. In 1592, the priory was merged with the title of abbot of Amer until its secularization in 1835, when it disappeared.

Between 1878 and 1948, it was a rural parish. From then until 1968 it was served by the parish priests of Susqueda, and since then by those of Osor up to the present day.

The temple, located in the municipality of Susqueda, preserves almost intact its original structure. It is a single nave, slightly trapezoidal, about twenty meters long, ending to the east in a semicircular apse with a central double-splayed window and a bell gable.

A notable element, now kept at the Episcopal Museum of Vic, is a Romanesque carving of the Virgin and a 12th-century altar frontal, considered a key work of painting from this period, of which a replica can be seen in the church.