The church features stained glass windows dating to the medieval period and others by Victorian designer Charles Eamer Kempe.

The lychgate, by Lincolnshire architect Cecil Greenwood Hare, also functions as a war memorial.

[3] A church is thought to have stood on the site since at least the early Norman period as a priest is recorded as residing at Rolleston in the 1086 Domesday book, though the present structure is later.

Sir Edward Mosley, 1st Baronet acquired the advowson shortly after becoming lord of the manor in the 1620s.

[5]: 15  The Mosley family remain extant and retain the right of burial in the churchyard, which otherwise closed in 1974 when the local authority constructed a cemetery to the north-west of the village.

[5]: 15  The church is constructed of ashlar sandstone and consists of a nave, chancel and tower with spire.

[5]: 15 [7] There are two bays exposed on the south of the church, the one to the left of the aisle holds the 12th-century round-arched entrance doorway and the one to the right a pointed window with three lights.

The single bay exposed on the north side of the church contains a window described as of unusual 17th-century construction with three treofil-topped lights and a criss-cross panel over.

[7] The south aisle, extended in 1892 by demolishing an external vestry, consists of four bays, again divided by two-stage buttresses.

There are also monuments for Thomas Caldwell (died 1554), an unknown couple (c. 1600), William Rolleston (d.1682) and a person named Wilman (1692).

It had previously been used as a paving slab in the porch of St Michael's Church, Tatenhill and before that was in the grounds of Rolleston Hall.

[4]: 205 [8] An iron fence was installed in 1900 to prevent cattle from gaining entrance, and in 1923 Sir Oswald Mosley, 5th Baronet extended the churchyard with a grant of land.

[5]: 16  The monument to George Ridgway, and some of the railings, with a gate, were separately granted grade II listed building protection on 26 March 1986.

[5]: 64 The lychgate at the northern entrance to the churchyard doubles as a war memorial and was erected by public subscription and a donation from the Mosley family in 1919.

Designed by Lincolnshire architect Cecil Greenwood Hare and built in Lichfield, the structure contains a bronze crucifix and lists of those villagers killed during the two world wars.

It was a substantial structure of six bays with a courtyard containing a stable block, tithe barn, dovecote and kiln.

The structure was rebuilt in brick in 1700 and by this time its grounds contained extensive gardens and fish ponds.