Situated in one of the most charming villages in the county, St Botolph’s consists of a 13thc W tower with a later medieval bell-stage, a three-bay nave with side aisles of the late 13th/early 14thc, and a chancel of c. 1300 with a S chapel of perhaps a slightly earlier date. Restoration work, including the chancel arch and the clerestory, was done by Kirk and Parry in 1865-66. A restoration in 1869 included a complete rebuilding of the roof and the S aisle. The tower arch has a Romanesque column, its L (S) nook facing the nave.

According to Domesday Book, a church existed in Newton in 1086 on land belonging to Odo the Crossbowman. Around 1180 the church was in the possession of Alan, a canon of the Clunaic priory of St Andrew, Northampton who received it from his brother, M. Laurence, a canon of St. Andrew (c. 1160-1180) and later archdeacon of Bedford (c. 1181-1199). In the early 1230s the bishop of Lincoln, Hugh of Wells, confirmed for the monks of St Andrew their possession of the church of Newton.

The shaft of this column looks as though originally it was en-delit though now it is comprised of three uneven sections. The R column for this arch has a simple bell capital and about half of its shaft preserved. The arch mouldings appear too massive for the slender shafts below, all this suggesting a reuse of stone. Pevsner raised the possibility that this arch was rebuilt using parts of the earlier chancel arch, which was replaced in the 1865-66 renovation of Kirk and Parry.