A small, mostly coursed rubble stone church consisting of nave, N aisle, N and S transept, chancel, S porch and a typical Rutland bellcote, all from the 13^th c. and latter window insertions. Elements from the 12^th c. are the simple S doorway of the nave with what may be a re-used coffin led used as a tympanum; a fragment of a pillar piscina, the font and a gravestone fragment.

Stretton is a small village located on the east side of the great N/S Roman road, Ermine Street – hence its name. The Domesday survey makes no mention of a church here, but Stretton is mentioned as a berewick of nearby Market Overton which was part of the land of Countess Judith, the niece of William the Conqueror; Alfred of Lincoln also claimed a quarter of Stretton. Market Overton appears in both the Rutland and the Lincolnshire DB, but in the Lincolnshire entry Stretton is omitted. However, Dugdale notes that in an 1185 inquisition into the possessions of the Knights Templars the church of Stretton is recorded as a gift to the Templars by Robert de Brus, lord of Annandale. The S doorway of the nave supports the existence of the church here in the 12^th century.

On the S doorway tympanum, the abrupt termination of the W end of the cope on the N, interior face suggests that it was originally part of a larger stone which has been reused. Perhaps it was originally a twelfth-century coped coffin lid. It is not clear why Pevsner dates the font as Early English as opposed to Norman. The uncarved back side of the pillar piscina fragment suggests that it was not freestanding, but originally set up against a wall surface. Pillar piscina fragment moved from the open S porch to the 13th c. wall piscina in the chancel for safekeeping.