[1] Alan Brooks, in his 2012 Herefordshire volume in the Pevsner Buildings of England series, notes a free-standing pillar piscina in the porch as the only evidence of this period of the church's history.

The manor was originally held by the de Pembridge family, Norman knights, before passing into the control of the Mortimers, later the Earls of March, in the 13th century.

[4][5] The church holds a series of modern tapestries, woven by parishioners, which depict the life and history of the village from Domesday to the 20th century.

[10][b] The tower was the subject of a detailed study by Andrew Boucher and Richard Morris, published in the journal Vernacular Architecture in 2011.

Boucher and Morriss discuss the likely rationale for detached church towers, a type relatively common in Herefordshire, and suggest that the traditional explanation, of the detached tower as a defensive structure, is implausible, given that many, including Pembridge, were originally constructed with openings at the ground floor level.