Tarrington is a village 6 miles E of Hereford and a silar distance W of Ledbury on the A438. The church is in the centre of the village, and consists of 12thc nave and chancel, originally with an apsidal E end, a N aisle by Edward Pritchard of 1835-36, a S porch by C Ford Witcombe of 1901, and a 16thc W tower. There was a major restoration by F. R.Kempson in 1871-72. Romanesque work is found in the N chancel windows, the enormous chancel arch, the tower arch and the N and S nave doorways

Tarrington was held as 2 manors by Alweald and Earnwig in 1066, and by Ansfrid de Cormeilles in 1086. It was assessed at 3 hides. The manor passed with the Honour of Cormeilles until the death of Walter of that name without a male heir in the early 13thc, and thereafter the holdings were divided between his daughters.

This elaborately carved late-Norman church provides important evidence for the state of carving in the generation after the Herefordshire School. Some distinctive features survive, notably the use of the dart foliage motif, inherited from such earlier sites as Leominster, and seen in contemporary work at Pudleston. Given that this work probably dates from the third quarter of the 12thc or even later, it is surprising to find that chip-carving remains in vogue. RCHME notes the 'crudely carved man and horse' on the S doorway, but Brooks (2012) following Pevsner (1963) does not trust them.