This single-aisled church lies in a valley between Long Mynd and Wenlock Edge. Parts of the nave are Anglo-Saxon, but most of the windows in the nave are 19thc.

An unornamented early 12thc doorway is let into the N wall. The S doorway, W tower and chancel date to c. 1200, and the S doorway has sculpted capitals. A 12thc font stands in the nave to the L of the S doorway.

Before the Norman conquest the manor of Rushbury was in the hands of an Anglo-Saxon named Alwin. By 1086 the manor belonged to Roger de Lacy who sublet it to a certain Odo. Odo's decendants held Rushbury until the 13thc. The church had some connections with Hereford in the 13thc, as is suggested by a record stating that the prior of Hereford was due an annual pension from Rushbury church.

Newman and Pevsner say that the font base is 20thc.