The village of Collingham is located SE of Wetherby and on the River Wharfe. The church, 'small and upright' (Leach and Pevsner 2009, 229), consists of a nave, chancel, N aisle and W tower. The nave and W half of the chancel are mostly pre-Conquest (Kirk 1937a, with a phased plan). Kirk illustrates an exterior view taken before the restoration of 1841. The N arcade is of the later 12thc, but the only surviving original work is in the bases and columns. For details of subsequent changes, see Ryder 1993, 16-17, 93, 147. Near the W entrance to the churchyard part of a round-headed doorway has been reused in the construction of a storehouse.

Despite the existence of the Anglo-Saxon church (Faull and Moorhouse 1981, 350), Collingham is not mentioned in the Domesday Book.

Ryder (1993, 147) suggests that the N arcade may have been constructed around 1200. The reused doorway, which he does not mention, also appears to be late twelfth-century.

Kirk (1937a, 12) suggests comparing the remains of the N arcade with that surviving at Bramham.