A Grade II* listed building, the church was very badly damaged in an arson attack in 2015.

"[3] The interior too is simply decorated but the massive sculpture, particularly of the Lefroys' tomb and of the gabled arch below which it originally sat is quintessentially Burges, "not so much muscular (gothic) as muscle-bound".

[3] The interior was significantly altered in the later twentieth century by the removal of the Lefroy tomb from its original position and by the whitewashing of the apse.

[4] Daniel Finnerty, a seventeen-year-old local, was subsequently arrested for suspected arson.

[5] In November 2015, at Winchester Crown Court, Finnerty pleaded guilty to two charges of arson and was sentenced to four years in a Youth Offender Institution (reduced to 3+1⁄2 years on appeal)[6] and to a three-year extended licence.