In the burial ground is the grave of Frederick Hitch, Victoria Cross recipient and veteran of the Battle of Rorke's Drift.

[2][3] The church was formally visited by a senior clergyman and an inventory made at "the unusually early date of 1252":[4] Ornamenta inventa apud Chesewith die Sanctorum Johannis et Pauli Anno Domini Mo.

[4] (Ornaments found at Chiswick on the day of Saints John and Paul, [26 June] 1252 A.D.)This first inventory lists "a good and sufficient missal sent there from the treasury of St Paul's"; two graduals; a badly bound tropary; an old lectionary; an anthem book; a psalter but not the expected manual.

[7] The current church dates from 1882 to 1884, when it was rebuilt to a design by the architect John Loughborough Pearson, except for the west tower which was built for William Bordall (vicar 1416–1435).

Because of the small distance between the tower and the road at Church Street, Pearson made the nave short but wide, so it is nearly square in plan.