Consists of chancel, nave, NW tower, and Victorian N aisle. The W end of the nave is 13thc.; the rest of the church is late 15thc. or later.

The `old church at Æstlea' is mentioned in the Ducklington charter of 958, and the parson of Estle witnessed a grant by one of the lords of Ducklington in about 1210; these references are evidently to Cokethorpe church. Until the late 13thc. it seems to have been regarded as an independent parish church, but its status declined thereafter and by the mid 16thc. it was merely a semi-abandoned chapel-of-ease of Ducklington. It is now the chapel of Cokethorpe School.

The window-head fragment is evidently the earliest piece, perhaps of the late 11thc. The tympanum could be any time in the 12thc.; the font, on the basis of the nailhead, is presumably relatively late. The font is notably finer than that in the mother church of Ducklington (q.v.), where extensive use of miniature nailhead in the S arcade suggests a workshop link.