Old Brampton is a village 3 miles outside Chesterfield to the W, in the district of North East Derbyshire. It is part of the civil parish of Brampton which also includes the villages of Cutthorpe and Wadshelf but not, confusingly, New Brampton, which is a suburb of Chesterfield. The church stands on a low hill on the N side of the road through the village and consists of a nave with 3-bay aisles, a S porch, a W toer with a short spire and a chancel with an organ chamber on its N side. Construction is of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and spire. The tower is 12thc in origin but was rebuilt with angle buttresses and a broah spire adding in the early 14thc. The arcades are 14thc but largely rebuilt, and the clerestorey was added in the 15thc. The S porch, a vaulted 14thc structure, protects a 12thc doorway, the only feature recorded here. The church was restored in 1868 by S. Rollinson.

The manors of Old Brampton and Wadshelf are treated together in the Domesday Survey, as three holdings, two held by Hascoit Musard and one by Walter of Aincourt. at the end of the 11thc, the church was a dependent chapel of Chesterfield (as was Wingerworth) and all three were appropriated to the Deanery of Lincoln by William II.

The doorway, although plain, is pointed and chamfered in its inner order, and the imposts are thinner and more elaborately moulded than would be expected before the later 12thc. It is, of course, possible that the pointed arch was introduced in the resetting of the doorway; the voussiors seem very irregular at the apex.