[1] The church is Grade II* listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as a result of receiving significant attention from tourists.

[4] The structure or property is also “listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.”[2] St. Mary's Church “may lie within the boundary of more than one authority,” which further supports its historic significance, based in the fact that certain records and so much interest has kept the Church intact, well visited, restored, and written or recorded about; known authorities include, but are not limited to, Nottinghamshire County and Gedling District.

The oldest decipherable and dated inscription in the churchyard can be found on a small stone ten yards south of the church and close to the tomb of the Stanfields.

It reads, "1690, Near this place lyeth ye Body of John, Son of Sam Leadbeater by Mary his Wife, who departed this life Novm.

At the consecration, a young man named John Toplis was present; and when the ceremony was over he said, “I wonder what poor devil will be buried there first”.