Burghill is a sizeable village 3 miles NW of Hereford. The church is at the centre of the village and is a large building consisting of a chancel with plain 12thc N window and a N doorway of similar date, now giving access to a vestry and organ room, an aisled nave with a clerestory on the S, and just one high window on the N, at the E end. The arcades are of 5 bays, and while the S arcade is late medieval the N is 13thc except for the W respond, which dates from the late 12thc. The church has a W tower, probably of the 13thc. The church was restored by Henry Curzon in 1880-81, and by Nicholson and Son 1892-93. The tower was rebuilt in 1810-12 by J. Passey. The outstanding Romanesque feature here is a lead font, only partly original, on a stone stem carved with figures under arcading.

Burghill was held by Earl Harold in 1066, and by Alvred of Marlborough in 1086. It was assessed at 8 hides, and houses 16 villans, 19 bordars and a priest, in addition to 4 slaves, a mill and a fishery. It was thus a good-sized settlement with a church at that time.

RCHME called the stem of the font Late-Norman and the rim of the lead bowl c.1200, a dating agreed by Pevsner (1963) and by Brooks (2012).