Eventually the builders gave up building it in the planned flat location and built it on the hill.
Godshill, dedicated to All Saints, "a spacious cruciform edifice, with a singular bell-turret on the south gable," consists of a chancel, nave, cross aisles, and tower.
From its architecture it is obviously of ancient foundation, and a portion of the present edifice may have stood upon the sacred hill when Fitz-Osbert gave it to the Abbey of Lire.
[3] The church still owns its Elizabethan era Chalice on loan to the Carisbrooke Castle Museum.
The church is in vacancy at present and served by visiting priests, whilst awaiting authority to recruit for 2023.