Mansfield is a large market town in the Maun valley in the west of Nottinghamshire, some 12mi N of Nottingham. The parish church of St Peter and Paul consists of a chancel, transepts, nave, aisles and W tower with a steeple. The only survivng Romanesque features are the W doorway and the W tower arch, together with a re-set voussoir in the S chapel.

Mentioned at Domesday as having two priests. From 1092 it was under the control of the bishop of Lincoln. The church as seen today is mostly of the late 13thc onwards; it was partly burnt in 1304 and rebuilt. Mansfield was a favourite royal centre from the 12th-15thc.

There are but few fragments from a church which was presumably of some status in the Anglo-Norman era if it had two priests. Curiously, the two in-situ features are surprisingly plain, with very little sculptural elaboration. The re-set chevron hints at the former presence of more decoration elsewhere.