It is designated Grade II* listed building and in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust, although the roofed portion is still used for services occasionally.

Steeper banks and knolls in the grassland have a flora which includes orchids, Somerset Hair Grass (Koeleria vallesiana), and Honewort, (Trinia glauca) and the Goldilocks Aster (Galatella linosyris) along with several species of butterfly and Weevil (Curculionoidea).

[4] The church used to be the responsibility of the abbot of the monastery dedicated to St Michael, which was on Steep Holm island in the Bristol Channel.

[5] The building was remodelled in the late Middle Ages[1] but by 1840 was in a poor state of repair so a new church was built near Uphill Manor in 1844.

The third sundial, on the window head on the south face of the tower, predates the Norman Conquest and may be Saxo-Norman.