West Ilsley has a public house, The Harrow, and a well supported cricket club.

It is now one of nine village churches in the East Downland benefice, which is part of the Newbury Deanery in the Diocese of Oxford.

[2] In 1616, the Italian Archbishop, Marco Antonio de Dominis was appointed Dean of Windsor and Rector of West Ilsley by King James I.

His successor, Dr Godfrey Goodman, sheltered King Charles I at West Ilsley Rectory during the English Civil War.

[3] In the churchyard are two trees planted by Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Helena and her husband Prince Christian, to commemorate the rebuilding of the church's chancel in 1878.