Tilton on the Hill is a village in the Harborough district of E Leicestershire, 8 miles S of Melton Mowbray and 10 miles E of the centre of Leicester. The church stands in the centre of the village and is built of coursed ironstone rubble with limestone dressings. It consists of a W tower with a spire, a nave with aisles and a clerestorey, and a chancel. The lowest part of the tower and the tower arch are late-12thc, as is the S chancel doorway. The nave arcades are late 13thc, the chancel 14thc and later, and the upper parts of the tower 13thc with a 14thc recessed spire. The N arcade was built uncomfortable close to the tower arch and the chancel arch, perhaps as a result of a shortage of space for the N aisle. The Romanesque features treated here are the tower arch, the S chancel doorway and the font.

Robert Despenser held 3 carucates of land in Tilton in 1086, and among its residents was a priest, suggesting that the church was in this holding. The king held 2 carucates, and Hugh held 1 carucate from the Archbishop of York. This holding was held by Gytha before the Conquest, and belonged to the almsland of Southwell Minster, presumably explaining why it was held from Hugh by a further subtenant in Friendai. In the 12thc. the church of Tilton, together with its subsidiary chapels of Whatberge and Mordefelde, were given by Everard and Waleran (Digby?) to the priory of Laund; which was confirmed by Henry II.

The tower arch is Transitional, late 12thc., the font mid-12thc. Nichols's engraving, from a drawing of 1794 and reproduced here includes a tiny image of the font which appears to show a narrow band of square divided ornament running round the outside of the bowl.