[1] It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Truro, the archdeaconry of Bodmin, and the deanery of Stratton.

At some time before 1291 the advowson was granted to St John's Hospital at Bridgwater by the Bishop of Exeter.

The church was restored in the 1850s under the direction of Parson Hawker when the box pews were removed and the wooden shingles on the roof were replaced.

It is built in rubble with granite for the long and short quoins, the string course, embattled parapet, and the tall corner pinnacles with crocketted finials.

[1] The Norman font is roughly shaped with ropework decoration beneath a plain bowl.

The chancel screen which was initially constructed by Parson Hawker was removed after his death and then replaced in 1908.

[1] The painting depicts a female holding a scroll in her left hand with her right arm raised in blessing over a kneeling monk and is thought to represent St Morwenna.

Four of these were cast by Abel Rudhall in 1753, the other two being by Mears & Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry dated 1902.

[11][12][13][14][15][16] Also in the churchyard is a granite Celtic cross which is said to have been moved from a nearby moor by Parson Hawker to commemorate the death of his first wife, Charlotte.

[17] Elsewhere in the churchyard is a replica of a carved and painted wooden figurehead depicting the figure of Caledonia holding a drawn sword and shield.

It was the figurehead from the Scottish brig Caledonia, which was shipwrecked off Morwenstow in September 1842 and is erected to the memory of its captain and crew who are buried nearby.

[19] In a corner of the vicarage garden about 125 metres from the church is the holy well of St John over which is a medieval well house; its water has been used for baptisms for hundreds of years.

Its well house also originates from the medieval period and it consists of a dressed stone-gabled structure built into the side of the cliff.