King’s Pyon is a village in the cider apple growing area, 8 miles NW of Hereford and 6 miles SW of Leominster, St Mary’s consists of a chancel with a N vestry and organ room, a nave with N and S transepts and a S porch, and a W tower. The nave is of the 12thc, see the N and S doorways and the N window. The chancel and its arch are 12thc too, and the N vestry added in the late-14thc. The tower is also late-14thc. The nave was remodelled c.1300, and the S transept added. The N transept, to a similar design, is an addition by Henry Ward of 1872. He restored the church and added the S porch too. The font in use is of carved oak and dates from Ward’s restoration, but a 12thc font stands in the N transept.

King’s Pyon was held by Edward the Confessor in 1066, but was given by King William to Roger de Lacy, who held it in demesne in 1086. It was assessed at 5 hides. Of this manor, Gruffydd held half a hide and the abbey of Sainte Marie de Cormeilles held one virgate and the tithes of the vill.

The chancel arch and both doorways belong to a campaign of c.1180-90. The font is apparently older, and is known to have been in the church in 1903 but was said to have been in the churchyard in 1897.