West Tisted is a small village in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, 6.7 miles NW of Petersfield. The church is a small building, even more so when it is realised that the chancel is 19thc, even though the whole exterior is identically clad in flint. It has a blocked Romanesque N door, and a piscina in the S wall at the end of the medieval nave, presumably by the rood altar, but there is no surviving chancel arch.

The value of the manor of West Tisted to its lord in 1066, the Bishop of Winchester, was £4, and £6 in 1086, when the bishop was tenant-in-chief over the lord Ranulf. A church at Tisted is mentioned in the Domesday Book, but it is not recorded in the 1291 Taxatio.

The plain imposts of the N doorway are of similar form to nearby Bramdean, and the pillar piscina head has very similar measurements to the better-preserved feature at nearby Chilcomb. Bullen and Pevsner date the font to the 13thc., but it may be earlier.