Of sandstone rubble with tufa dressings: 12thc. nave, extended westwards in 13thc., 12thc. chancel with E wall of 1866, timber bell-turret with shingled spire and a modern S porch. Plain chancel arch with plain chamfered imposts; plain font. Romanesque sculpture is found on a reset panel above the S nave doorway.

There were two manors of Hanley in Doddingtree Hundred at DS: one was held by Roger, the other by Hugh, both under Gilbert Fitz Turold. It is not clear which one corresponded to Hanley William.

The date of the font is uncertain, but it is probably 12thc. The church may have been builtc.1130-40. There is a panel bearing a similar Agnus Dei, but within a roundel, at Stockton-on Teme. There is also an Angus Dei panel at Eastham. (Neither the font nor the panel is recorded in Pevsner.)