Sproxton is a village in the Melton district of NE Leicestershire, 2 miles W of the Lincolnshire border and 7 miles NE of Melton Mowbray. The church stands on the road out of the village to the N, and is an ironstone building consisting of a nave with a S aisle and S transept, chancel with a S chapel and a W tower. The tower is 13thc for the most part, with a late-14thc upper storey with battlements and pinnacles of limestone. The church was restored in 1882-83 by Woodyer who rebuilt the top of the tower, the porch, the S aisle, the chancel arch and the additions to the S of the chancel. Norman evidence of an earlier building survives in the form of chevron voussoirs re-used on the exterior and the capitals re-used by Woodyer in the rebuilt chancel arch. In 2017 a 12thc grave slab was discovered when a new drain was being installed and this is displayed in the church.

In 1086 there were 3 holdings listed in Sproxton. 3 carucates were held by Warin from Guy de Craon, with a mill and 15 acres of meadow, and Geoffrey de cambrai held 2 carucates with a mill and 4 acres of meadow. The major tenant in chief, however, was Countess Judith whose 8 carucates were held from her by Hugh Musard. The manor also included another mill meadow 2 furlongs square. and was Hugo de Boby - a local landowner and benefactor of Croxton Abbey - gave the abbot one-third part of the church of Sproxton. during the arch-deaconry, at Leicester, of Baldric (1158-89). This seems to be the earliest mention of the church. Later the other two parts were given to the Abbey as well. (Nichols)

The capital reused on the N side of the chancel arch - which was rebuilt in Gothic style by Woodyer 1882-3 - is "moving towards crocket design" (Pevsner). The other is paralleled fairly closely at Twyford (middle capital of arcade). Dating c.1185. The chevron fragments could be earlier. Nichols illustrates a good Anglo Danish cross formerly in the churchyard, which probably indicates a pre-Conquest foundation for the church. The graveslab discovered in 2017 was dated by Aleks McClain, a Senior Lecturer at in the Department of Archaeology at York University, to 1100-50, according to a notice in the church.