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The church comprises chancel with S chapel, nave with N and S aisles and S porch, and a W tower. The tower is 15thc and the N arcade is 14thc but the rest of the church was rebuilt in 1879 by J. F. Gould (Pevsner 1989, 627; Historic England listing: 1333084). Romanesque sculpture is found on the font and on a pillar piscina.
St Mary's Abbey, Buckfast held Petrockstow before 1066 and continued to hold it after the Conquest.
An undated watercolour held in the church shows the font located on the N side of church, to the N of the first bay of the N arcade.
F. Arnold-Forster, Studies in Church Dedications: or, England's patron saints, London, 1899, 225.
C. and F. Thorn (eds) Domesday Book: Devon, Chichester, 1985, 6, 1.
N. Pevsner and B. Cherry, The Buildings of England: Devon, 2nd ed., London, 1989, 627–8.
