Edwin held it of King Edward and could go where he wished with his land.A church existed before the Norman conquest.

In 1086 the lack of change in value pre-conquest (TRE[a]) to 1086 (as now) may suggest that no major building work had occurred in the intervening 20 years.

The official listing record describes the church as "First half C11, C13 and C15, restored 1879–80 by Clarke" which agrees with Tatton-Brown's earlier date.

[2] In January 2007, the interior of the church, exterior shots of the building and the churchyard and surroundings were used extensively as locations in the filming of an episode of EastEnders broadcast in the United Kingdom over the Easter 2007 holiday season.

[10] Mock gravestones together with a temporary Victorian-style street lamp were added to the churchyard by the production crew.

[3] It contains the suspected Anglo-Saxon windows, referred to above, which are now filled with a Victorian image of St Giles marking the church's restoration.

As of late 2007, structurally the church is unchanged in at least 200 years, as indicated by a watercolour painted in 1807,[14] and still retains most of its earlier features.

However, the church has undergone a number of repairs and restorations, particular in respect to the building's roof,[15] and the rebuilding of the tower and porch in 1903.

In 1798, Edward Hasted described the church as:"dedicated to St. Giles, and consists of two isles and two chancels, having a tower steeple at the west end of it.

"[18] The Tyldens were an ancient landholding family in the area for at least three centuries and William Tylden's memorial stone lies set in the floor of the north chancel, showing his date of death as 23 December 1613 Samuel Lewis, in his 1831 Topographical Dictionary of England wrote of a "tower steeple and some fine remains of stained glass in the great east window.

In 1852, Arthur Hussey described the church as having architectural features "certainly of a very early character" and further:"In Wormshill church the arches, which are pointed, appear to be mere perforations of the wall, the soffits being single, the angles not chamfered, of the thickness of the wall, flat and plain from one side to the other.

"[20]In 1851 the church was said to have seating capacity of "140" with "afternoon attendance: 82" and, in 1879, architect Joseph Clarke undertook further restoration work.

[16] This work was commemorated by the addition of a new stained glass window, in the possible Saxon opening, dedicated to Saint Giles which bears the date of the restoration (1879) as well as the name of the vicar, "H. Newport" and church wardens Tom Clements (who was at one time the village postmaster) and "H. Hudson".

A stained glass window dated 1879 in a small opening in the south wall depicts St Giles, holding a stricken deer, in keeping with the saint's story.

Further stained glass includes the Northwood coat of arms, dedicated to a former landholding family in the parish.

In 1944 a 16-year-old resident, Michael Nightingale, opened a Post Office savings account entitled the "Wormshill Bell Fund" by paying in ten shillings.

He invited Albert Hughes from Mears & Stainbank to inspect the tower with a view to replacing the bells with a ring of six.

He tells of Mr Hughes’ surprise at being met at Sittingbourne Railway Station by a youth rather than the somewhat older gentlemen he was used to dealing with!

[22] Fifty years later he completed the full ring of six bells - one of which was original and five were rescued from abandoned churches.

Nightingale's dream of fifty years earlier finally came true on 8 October 1995 when the bells were dedicated by the Bishop of Rochester, the Right Reverend David Say.

[24] A rector at the Rectory of Wormshill in the 19th century, Reverend Josiah Disturnell, was the subject of a debate as to early examples of exceptional "human longevity" when he was cited as being 107 years old when he died.

References to the rector's memorial stone in the church were ultimately provided as evidence of his actual age of death, being either "91 or 93".