The church lies immediately east of Bentworth's primary school and north-east of the Star Inn on the main road through the village.

[3] The present church has flint walls with stone dressings and stepped buttresses, a plinth, and corbelled tracer lights in the nave.

[1] The west tower was rebuilt in 1890 and has diagonal buttresses with an elaborate arrangement of steps (some with gabled ornamentation), and at the top is a timber turret, surmounted by a broach spire.

[4] In Victorian times, the author and gay rights campaigner George Cecil Ives lived at the post-1832 Bentworth Hall with his mother Emma Gordon-Ives.

"[5] The panels at the sides contain various inscriptions including the one on the south panel which reads: "Sacred to the memory of John Hankin who departed this life January 12th 1816, aged 55 years", and the one on the north side which reads: "Sacred to the memory of Elizabeth, widow of John Hankin, who departed this life September 13th 1831, aged 67 years.