The sandstone footings of the nave and tower may date from before the Norman conquest, and the church is listed in the Domesday Book under the village's alternative name of Tivedale.

In 1871-5 Robert Medley Fulford rebuilt the nave and added the north aisle in Bath stone,[4] and in 1885 the chancel arch was constructed and the 1571 Fane monument restored.

On 19 September 1963, Sarah the daughter of Sir Henry and Lady D'Avigdor-Goldsmid who owned nearby Somerhill House,[6][7] was drowned in a sailing accident off Rye, East Sussex.

[8][9] In her memory, the couple commissioned the Belarusian-French artist Marc Chagall to design a stained glass window for the church;[8] it was installed in 1967.

Over the next ten years Chagall designed the remaining eleven windows in watercolour; these were again made in collaboration with the glassworker Charles Marq in his workshop at Reims in northern France.