Built of red sandstone ashlar, the church has a 12thc. aisleless nave and chancel, the latter with a modern arch and rebuilt E wall, a W tower of the 16thc. or 17thc., and a modern vestry. Romanesque sculpture is found in the S doorway of the nave, within a 15thc. porch, in the blocked N nave doorway and on the label of a small reset doorway in the S chancel wall; on the string courses of both nave and chancel; on the font and on loose fragments.

The first mention of Shrawley appears to be an entry in the Evesham Chartulary, which is attributed to the second half of the 12thc.; William Beauchamp of Elmley then held one hide there (VCH 1:329).

The church was known simply as Shrawley Church until an unknown date after 1700.

The account and plan given in the VCH assert that the nave and chancel are on different axes, however we are grateful to Richard Pumphrey of the Shrawley Historical Society for pointing out that this is not the case, and for supplying a true vertical drone photograph to prove it (published here by kind permission of the Society). The arch of the second order of the S doorway is very similar to the S doorway at Bredon, but the waterleaf capitals supporting it may suggest that it is a little later. The bowl of the font could be a reused main arcade capital. The loose fragments discovered beneath the chancel floor could have come from the Romanesque chancel arch. The pilaster buttresses pierced by a window, found here in the chancel, occur also at Cropthorne and Fladbury.

The building stone appears to have come from the quarry on the N side of the churchyard. Three ramps for bringing the stone to the site are still apparent and there are pieces of dressed stone at the quarry's rim.