Donington on Bain is a village in the Lincolnshire Wolds in the East Lindsey district of the county, 6 miles SW of Louth and a similar distance N of Horncastle. Donington is on the River Bain, a tributary of the Witham, and the church faces the main road through the village. The unbuttressed W tower of this church is Romanesque, but the bulk of the rest of the structure, consisting of nave and chancel, has been restored. The N nave aisle was removed c. 1779 and the chancel was restored in 1868. The baptismal font is Romanesque and bears a rudimentary carved design.

In the Domesday Survey, Donington was sokeland of the manor of Belchford held by Ivo Taillebois in demesne, and assessed at 6 carucates. Before the Conquest it was held by Stori of Bolingbroke.

Pevsner refers to the base of the font as a "circular E.E. capital reversed," but it is clearly a column base that has been flipped upside-down.