The church was built in the 15th century, and was restored by the Victorians in 1864 after many years of disrepair.

Scrooby harboured a Separatist Puritan group, 1606–8, which fled to Holland in 1608 and then in 1620 sailed to America in the Mayflower.

William Brewster, one of the Pilgrim Fathers and a ruling elder, worshipped in Scrooby Church.

Today, St Wilfrid's is in the Benefice of Blyth and Scrooby with Ranskill.

[4] Services from a central Anglican tradition are still held at St Wilfrid.