It is sited on a low ridge of cornbrash limestone on the edge of the Blackmore Vale.

St Ippolyts, a village on the southern edge of Hitchin in Hertfordshire.

The chancel and nave of the church are basically from the 13th century, but architecturally the most interesting features lie in the unusual 17th-century work which includes the east window and most of the windows in the nave, (including the little trefoil placed high to light the pulpit).

Also from the early 17th century is the tower, with its intricate profile caused by the projecting stairway.

There is an alms dish in the church which was lost in 1873 and found its way back to Dorset from Bideford in Devon in 1938.