The church consists of a long chancel, a nave, a large S transept, a S porch, and a W tower with a large spire.

In the W wall of the S porch there are fragments of a Romanesque chevron label.

Chelmorton is not recorded in the Domesday Survey.

There must have been a chapel here, when King John gave the church of Bakewell and its dependencies to the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield, but the first specific mention we have found of it is in the early chartulary of Lichfield under the year 1256.