[2] During the early 16th century, Thomas Hooper, the then-owner of the Boveridge estate, provided the village with an almshouse.

His son, Edward Hooper, who died in 1661, bequeathed additional funds and land for the benefit of three poor widows.

A new church was built at the expense of Richard Brouncker of the Boveridge estate in 1838, on a site considered more convenient for the inhabitants.

The restoration included repainting the walls with distemper, cleaning and repairing the windows, and replacing the stone flooring with wooden blocks.

[3] Prior to its redundancy, fittings recorded at the church included a font of Portland stone, believed to date to 1838, 16th and 17th century penelling reset on the walls of the chancel and nave, and arms of the Hooper and Brouncker families.