Monxton is a village in the Test Valley district, 3½ miles W of the centre of Andover and 14 miles NE of Salisbury in the neighbouring county of Wiltshire. The church is on the E side of the High Street and is built of flint with tiled roofs, It consists of a nave with a S porch and a shingled W bell turret with a broach spire, and a lower chancel with a N vestry. The church was rebuilt by Woodyer in 1854, and is all of that date except for the chancel arch responds and their capitals, which are 12thc.

The vill was held by Wulfgifu from King Edward in 1066, and by King William in 1086, when it paid geld for 2½ hides. It was given to the Abbey of Bec by Hugh de Grandmesnil later in the 11thc. and for this reason its Domesday name of Ann (after the brook of that name) became Monks' Ann, and later Monxton (Ekwall). The advowson of the church descended with the manor, and was in the patronage of the English representative of the Abbot of Bec until the alien priories were dissolved in 1404, and the manor reverted to the king.

D. K. C. reports that in addition to the chancel arch responds, the font from the demolished medieval church was also retained, but that it was later replaced. The use of trumpet scallops points to a date at the end of the 12thc., perhaps c.1170-90.