Restoration work was later carried out in the 19th century by the Gothic Revival architects Thomas Rickman and George Edmund Street.

[1] The first church on the site probably dates to around AD 691–92, when King Æthelred of Mercia made a grant of land to Oftfor, Bishop of Worcester.

[4] The college periodically received supervisory visits from the Worcester diocese,[3] with a bishop's palace in Henbury used as an episcopal residence until the late 15th century.

The archive also includes records of the incumbent, churchwardens, overseers of the poor, parochial church council, charities, schools and societies plus deeds, plans and photographs.

[8] The slave known as Scipio Africanus is buried in the churchyard in a grave with elaborately painted headstone and footstone, dated 1720.

In September 2016, Historic England designated the grave as grade II listed,[12] celebrating it as a landmark in English LGBT history.