Whitchurch is a village on the River Wye in the extreme S of the county, 5 miles SW of Ross-on-Wye and a mile from the borders with Gloucestershire to the SE and Monmouthshire to the SW. The village neighbours Symonds Yat West; a tourist resort with a large caravan and camping site, and an amusemant park, handily placed for access to the A40 which also bisects Whitchurch village. The village street remains, but it is overshadowed by these developments. The church stands at the end of a lane at the E end of Whitchurch, alongside the river. It consists of a chancel with a N vestry, nave with a S porch and a double bellcote over the W gable, and a 3-bay N aisle, separately roofed. The nave and chancel are 13thc and 14thc, and the vestry may be late-medieval in origin. A restoration by Benjamin Ferrey of 1860-61 added the N aisle, the porch, and the W bellcote. The only Romanesque feature here is the font.

Whitchurch is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey. The earliest presentation recorded was by William de Valence in 1289.

The dedication to Dubricius (Welsh Dyfrig) is confined to a few churches in Herefordshire, Porlock in Somerset and a small number in Wales. RCHME dates the font shaft and the remodelling of the Norman bowl to fit to the 14th- 15thc, followed by Brooks (2012) who prefers a 15thc date. Neither Pevsner (1963) nor the List Description mention the remodelling, although the latter offers a late-12thc date for the bowl.