 The first particle "esking" supposedly means an inhabitant of Assentoft, but the creek seems later to have been named after a fulling mill ("valkemølle"), which in time, however, was used as gristmill.The church was first built in Romanesque style as a nave and probably a chancel – internally consisting of granite boulders built around raw fieldstone, and externally of granite ashlars.On the northern and southern side of the church were a simple rectangular entrance, and the ceiling of the church was flat and plastery.