Easton is a village in the City of Winchester district of the county, 2½ miles NE of the centre of Winchester on the S bank of the River Itchen. The church is on the N side of the village, close to the river. It is a flint building, partly rendered, consisting of an apsed chancel, nave and W tower, all originally Norman, but drastically restored in 1866-72 by H. Woodyer. The Norman tower is short but was topped in the 19thc. with a skirted roof topped with a shingled bell stage and a conical roof with dormers. A SE stair turret was also added, with a matching roof, a very picturesque effect. The apse was thoroughly restored, and the windows, and that of the chancel on the S side, replaced with wider ones in the 19thc. Romanesque features that have survived Woodyer's restoration in part are the N and S nave doorways and the N nave windows.

Easton was held by the Bishops of Winchester as early as 871, when Bishop Alfred granted land there. The Domesday Survey records that it always belonged to the bishopric, and in 1086 the bishop held it in demesne. At that time the manor included 2 chapels and 2 mills. In 1284 Bishop John gave up all rights in the manor excepting only his rights of overlordship to the prior and convent, who held it until the Dissolution.

Pevsner and Bullen agree that the church was made more showily Norman by Woodyer's restoration, but whereas Pevsner dated the Norman work to c.1200 (as does the List Description) Bullen has it 30 years earlier (following VCH), which is hard to understand in view of the keeled mouldings and stiff leaf capitals of the S doorway. Possibly both camps were wrong in attributing all the Norman work to the same date, and Woodyer certainly confused matters by adding capitals of a vehemently early-13thc type. One interesting feature, certainly 12thc., is the inner order of the main doorway with its combination of point-to-point and hyphenated chevron, not seen anywhere else in the county so far. The likeliest comparison is with St Cross, Winchester, as Bullen suggests, as the Bishop of Winchester owned the advowson.