Mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, parts of the building date to the 11th century and is built on the remains of an older Saxon structure.
The church has a pyramidical timber-framed bell-cot with a tiled roof at the west end inside which is a bell dating to the 14th century.
The exterior is of flint and ironstone random rubble, partly rendered, with freestone dressings and ashlar, brick and tile buttresses.
Inside there is a carved effigy of the Crusader Sir Richard de Montfichet on a window sill.
In 1908 a "mission church" dedicated to St Michael was opened on Norton Way South, closer to the new town centre.