The parish of Churchill (‘church hill’, of course) covers quite a large area and has no obvious sense of focus unless that is the cross-roads of the A38 Bristol―Bridgwater trunk road and the A368 Bath―Weston-super-Mare: an extremely busy junction with traffic lights 1km ESE of the church. To the south the parish is bounded by the northern limestone ridge of the Mendip Hills (with its quarries); to the west, along the A368, there is some ribbon development towards the next villlage of Sandford; to the north-east, mostly developed along past and present alignments of the A38, the parish incorporates the large village of Langford. The older houses of Churchill seem to be along the lane which leaves the A368 500m west of the A38 to proceed WNW towards Churchill Green. A turning N off this lane takes one along a lane towards Congresbury (3.5km distant). 500m along this lane one will find the church, totally alone except for the adjacent manor house. There is virtually open pastoral countryside to the N; to the NW lie the Yeo valley and the North Somerset Levels (the Yeo running through Congresbury). Thus, the church is just about at the north-west extremity of the settled part of the parish. (A narrow and sharp salient of the parish extends NW from the church across the moors towards Puxton.) Its situation gives a sense of peace which is a treasure in this part of Somerset hectic with dense, noisy and fast-moving road traffic.
Its altitude of about 30m above OD gives the church some eminence over the land to the north. This is because it was built on the expanse of Mercia Mudstone (Keuper Marl) which rises above the Alluvium of the Levels.
The church consists of an aisled nave with a S porch, chancel and W tower. It is 12thc origin, with 14thc and 15thc rebuilding and a 1879 restoration. Construction is of coursed rubble throughout except the W façade of the tower, which is of squared and coursed dressed stone. Approximately two courses above the water-table on the west face of the turret at the SE corner of the tower, there is an inverted block with an incised scratch-dial, not recorded in detail but photographed. The only Romanesque sculpture is the font.
