Weston-under-Penyard is a village 2 miles SE of Ross-on-Wye, on either side of the A40 to Gloucester. The church is on the S side of the village, on the outskirts of Penyard Park; formerly a medieval forest and chase, and now a conservation area. St Lawrence's has a 13thc chancel with a S vestry, a nave with a N aisle and a 12thc arcade, N and S doorways and a W tower. The N doorway, under a brick and timber porch, is on the village side and is the main entrance to the church. Romanesque features recorded here are the N nave arcade with its figural label stops, and the N doorway with the reset corbel heads that flank it. The S doorway is completely plain and is not recorded.

Weston-under-Penyard was held by Gunnar in 1066, and by Bernard from Durand of Gloucester in 1086. His manor was assessed at 2 hides.

The forms of the arcade capitals indicate a date after the middle of the 12thc, perhaps 1170-80. Brooks and Pevsner (2012) call it late-12thc, and date the reset cobels in the N porch to the same period.