Little Chishill is a village in the South Cambridgeshire district of the county, 4½ miles SE of Royston. The church is on the W side of the narrow lane that is the main road through the village. Built largely of flint, it stands on a substantial mound, and consists of an aisleless nave with S porch; a 12thc. chancel of clunch rubble lengthened in the 16thc.; and a short two-storey W tower with a pyramid roof. There is a 12thc. window in the N wall of the chancel.

In the Domesday Survey, Great and Little Chishill are taken together and recorded under Essex. A manor was held by Guy under Count Eustace of Boulogne in 1086, another by Roger d'Auberville, and a third by William Cardon under Geoffrey de Mandeville.

The village, sited as it is on the southern tip of Cambridgeshire with Essex a mile to the E and Hertfordhire a mile to the W was recorded under Essex in the Domesday Survey and remained in that county until the boundary was moved in 1895, shifting it into Cambridgeshire. Similarly the diocesan boundary changed and the Chishills have moved from London to Rochester, then St Albans before ending up in Chelmsford.

The N chancel window capital suggests a date in the 1170s or '80s for the chancel.