Bede makes reference to an abbess called Verce in Tynemouth in the seventh century.

Several members of the Lyons family are buried at the Church of St Mary at Warkworth, including two in spectacular effigies (see below).

[7] Warkworth was historically a chapelry which formed a detached part of the ancient parish of Marston St Lawrence.

[8] For the purposes of administering parish responsibilities under the poor laws, the chapelry of Warkworth was jointly administered with the part of Banbury parish which was in Northamptonshire, comprising the hamlets of Grimsbury and Nethercote.

[9][10] In 1866 the legal definition of 'parish' was changed to be the areas used for administering the poor laws, and so Warkworth became a civil parish which included Grimsbury and Nethercote.

was used to enclose the formerly separate open field systems of Warkworth, Grimsbury, Nethercote and Overthorpe (the latter being a hamlet in Middleton Cheney parish).

The south arcade, north aisle windows, chancel and top of the west tower are 19th-century Gothic Revival.