The church has a 12thc. aisleless nave of coursed sandstone rubble, faced internally and externally, a brick chancel rebuilt after 1718 and a timber bell-turret. There were restorations in 1845-46, which included the rebuilding of the N nave wall, and in 1898. Romanesque sculpture is found in the S doorway, protected by a 14thc. timber porch, on a panel above it, in the chancel arch and on fragments in the E nave wall, discovered when the plaster was removed during the restorations of 1898.

In 1086 the manor was held by Roger de Lacy. The church is first mentioned in 1284, when the advowson was held by the lord of the manor.

According to Stratford (in Pevsner 1968, 45) the same masons worked at Eastham, Knighton and Martley, in the second quarter of the 12thc. Carved panels are also set into the E nave wall at Eastham, one of them bearing an Agnus Dei, and at Hanley William, above the S door.