By 1472 the Fabric Rolls of York reported that the church was ruinous, but in the process of being rebuilt.

It was successive Earls of Shrewsbury who had much of the damage repaired in the Tudor era.

The new steeple subsequently built to replace it was much smaller and became known as "the Handsworth stump".

In the late 17th or early 18th century, a larger and more modern rectory was built near the chancel of the church.

This was built in the mid-13th century as a church house for the chaplains and lay clerks attached to St Mary's.

[3] Parish registers of baptisms, marriages and funerals at St Mary's survive from 1558 onwards.