The lower part of the W tower is the oldest surviving part of the church and may date to the 1070’s; the top part of the tower, from the upper bell-stage to the crenellation is likely part of the 13^th c. construction associated with the three-bay nave. The windows of the N aisle suggest a rebuilding in the first half of the 14^th c. while those of S suggest renovations in the later 14^th or 15^th c. In the early 1880’s John Oldrid Scott added the chancel, designed with the 13^th c. S doorway in mind. In the W tower, the capitals and arches of the bell-openings have late 11^th c. features and the font in the nave is Romanesque.

Alkborough is recorded in Domesday Book but there is no mention of a church here in 1086. This is odd because documentary evidence suggests a church here as early as the 1050’s. Further, recent research on the W tower suggests a date c. 1070 for its construction which implies a fairly substantial structure here at the time the Domesday chroniclers were winding their way through the village. By the late 11^th c. the church seems to have been given as a gift to Spalding Priory, by Ivo Taillebois; however this right of ownership was contested by Peterborough Abbey. For a summary of the tower dating and the dispute over possession of the church see Stocker and Everson.

Though the Taylors dated the W tower of Alkborough to the late Anglo-Saxion period, Stocker and Everson consider it part of the impressive group of early Romanesque, parish church towers scattered throughout county. They have proposed that these towers are manifestations of a new Norman ritual associated with burial and, by extension, a symbolic claim of the new Norman power in the rural landscape.