The unique white timber clad tower contains a small peal of six bells with a tenor weighing just 7 cwt or 350 kg.

[2] The geographic setting has been described by Venables, a poet as: "To the north the gazes embraces the whole of the vale of Newchurch with the undulating ridge of the chalks down beyond, ending towards the valley of the Medina in the abrupt Slope of the St.George’s Down.

The exterior features a red-tiled roof, walls of rough sandstone, a weatherboarded tower, a south porch, and a short spire.

[7] Both transepts are singularly deep and must have been original features,[7] though the south one has been lengthened 10 feet (3.0 m), probably in the 16th century when the east window was inserted.

[7] They both end in pointed arches, that to the north being splayed inwards for some ritual purpose, while the south one was rebuilt when the way to the rood-loft was cut through in the 15th century.

The crown of the west entrance has been lowered to admit the insertion of a large 'churchwarden' window, and the external jambs have been replaced with plain cut stone.

It is probable that the Dillingtons were responsible for the churchwarden creations in the north transept, and the west wall, and the final remodelling of the tower.

[7] There are memorials (eight inscriptions) in the north transept to the Dillington family, 1674 to 1749, wall tablets to Lieutenant General Maurice Bockland (Member of Parliament from Yarmouth; d. 1765), W. Bowles (d. 1748), an author, and William Thatcher, 1776.

[7] The chancel, unusually long for its width, is lighted on the north by the three blunt lancets already referred to, on the east and south by three-light 16th-century windows.

The transept and chancel arches are very massive in appearance, with pointed heads and triple-splayed orders springing from slightly curved abaci, forming a continuous moulding round the piers.

In 1725, the south transept received their attention as a further burial place for the family, the Dillington baronetcy having become extinct four years earlier.

'[7] A register has records of many events since 1582, and which includes information of a Chichester earthquake that occurred on 30 November 1811 at 3.20 am, which was felt in Portsmouth at Rydes and in many other parts of the Isle of Wight.