Soon after that date the area had associations with the Fitzalans (ancestors of the Earls of Arundel), who gave Cardington and Lydley Hayes (or deer park) to the military order of the Knights Templar in 1167.

Subsequent history is largely based on several important families that lived within the Parish, some of whom started charities for the education of the young or for the provision of food for the poor.

One example is the Old Free School which still stands next to the churchyard and was provided from a bequest in the will of William Hall in 1740[citation needed] for the building of a schoolhouse and the maintenance of the schoolmaster.

The remaining listed buildings and most of the unlisted cottages date from between the early 18th and 19th centuries, the most ambitious of which is the old Vicarage on the western fringe of the village.

In plan it is typical of the simplest of churches from the Norman period, consisting of a short rectangular nave with a squat west tower.