[2] In the 13th century, during the reign of Henry III, the dedication of the church was altered to its present form of St Mary Magdalene.

[5] The 13th century also saw the rebuilding of the chancel, at the time only one storey high, in the Early English Gothic style.

[2][4] In the 14th century, the chancel was raised by a further stage, unusually by adding a row of windows directly on top of the old, giving the appearance of a two-storey building.

[2][5] The church saw much change again during the 16th and 17th centuries, including the removal of the rood loft and staircase, and damage caused by the English Civil War.

The church, like many others, was damaged by Oliver Cromwell and his forces,[7] including smashing many stained glass windows, destroying monuments and furnishings, and decapitating the head from the churchyard cross.

This restoration involved removing the galleries, re-roofing the chancel, and adding a new reredos, north transept screen, and choir stalls.

The first stage, carried out from 1920 to 1924, involved recasting the church bells and restoring the tower and clock, at a cost of £1,731.

The second stage, the largest and longest, involved the renewing of floors, seating, walls, heating apparatus, the restoration of the roofs of chancel, north transept and nave aisles, at a cost of £1,791.

The third and final stage, lasting from 1931 to 1932, included the restoration of the nave and south transept roofs, and the pinnacles, parapets, and gables.

[5] During this work, a beautiful and rare 13th-century fresco painting of St Christopher was discovered in the north nave aisle.

Donations also arrived from further afield, including from Gloucestershire, London, Canada, the United States, and New Zealand.

In January 2016, a significant patch of dry rot was discovered under the choir stalls in the chancel, and at the same time, the south transept roof required recovering.

[9] The church is built in a cruciform plan, with a four-bay aisled nave, transepts, three-bay chancel, and a low central tower.

[4] The chancel is of three bays, features two rows of windows, the lower stage from the 13th century, and the upper from the 14th, giving the impression of a two-storey structure.

The lower stories of the tower are 12th century in origin, and the old level of the Norman roof ridge can be seen on the western face.

It was heightened in the 15th century and features two-light boarded belfry windows, an embattled parapet, weathervane and flagpole.

The aisle roofs are of simple lean-to construction, featuring moulded ribs, bosses and angel corbels.

[12] Underneath the tower is a highly decorative stone fan vault, a hallmark of the Perpendicular Gothic style.

[4] The chancel is the most richly decorated part of the building, featuring most of the surviving medieval stained glass in the church.

The windows have beautiful geometric tracery, with similarities to the now ruinous Tintern Abbey in Monmouthshire, Wales, and decorative arches with carved foliage.

In 1750, these were augmented to six with a treble cast by William Cockey, and all six bells rehung in a new anticlockwise wooden frame by George Nott.

The bells were all quarter-turned to reduce the wear on their soundbows, and they received new gudgeons, bearings and clapper joints from John Taylor & Co of Loughborough, Leicestershire.

[15] A problem occurred when it was discovered that in the 1902 restoration, the ringing chamber ceiling had been re-boarded, and no trapdoor had been included, for there was no expectation the bells would be lowered again so soon.

Whilst this was well within the skill set of Taylor's bell hanger, it was not in the terms of the contract, so an additional charge of £53 was incurred for cutting a trapdoor.