[2] Much of the church dates from the Norman period, although the original central tower was replaced by a brick one at the north-east corner in 1659 and some alterations, particularly to the fenestration, the nave arcades and transepts, and the north porch, were made in two stages during the 19th century.

[2] Of the 19th-century restoration of the building, Simon Jenkins states that "for once the Victorian does not emerge the winner, especially in the chancel",[5] which latter John Betjeman terms "splendid".

[8] On the exterior, the south door and arch, west doorway, blocked north aisle window and string course are all Norman.

[5] There was a central tower,[4] which was removed in 1659, the thrusting out of the responds between choir and nave being visible today, as are distortion in the vault ribs of the chancel.

[4] There is a fine brass on the chancel floor to Nicholas de Kaerwent (vicar 1361–81; d. 1381), Rector of Crondall, which incorporates Fylfot crosses on the stole.

[4] In 1643 Parliamentarian soldiers seized the church under Colonel Birch, CIO to Major-General Sir William Waller.

[11] In subsequent years numerous sightings of the ghosts of Parliamentarian soldiers in the church's graveyard were reported,[14] particularly of a mounted trooper who is said to disappear through a doorway having ridden up the avenue of limes.

[4] This work, which cost £428,[3] took 32 men, 110,000 bricks and 62 loads of sand,[15] and the old church was connected to the new tower by two timber galleries, "as if part of a Shakespearean theatre".

The first, overseen by Benjamin Ferrey in 1847, saw the replacement of the galleries and pews, as well as the windows of the clerestory and the aisle,[16] termed "wretched travesties of 12th-century style".

[3] The outside walls of the church were also surfaced in cement stucco, which was removed post 1997 as it retained water, and a Bevington organ positioned in front of the west window.