Ipsden is a village in the Chiltern Hills in the South Oxfordshire district of the county. It is 3 miles SE of Wallingford and 8 miles NW of Reading. The church stands on the N edge of the village centre and is a flint building consisting of a long nave with a S porch and a 19thc. bellcote over the W gable. The nave has a N aisle of 2 bays at its E end, and there are indications on the exterior of a removed S arcade which had polygonal piers and pointed arches and extended the full length of the nave, The 3-bay chancel is late-12thc with Romanesqu windows on the N and S sides. The chancel arch is 13thc work incorporating 12thc capitals. On the exterior of the chancel is a blocked Priests' doorway.

In 1086 Reginald the Archer held 2½ hides in Ipsden. The church was formerly a chapel of North Stoke, and like that parish was under the patronage of the Abbey of Bec in Normandy.

The late-12thc work at Ipsden is a good example of the trend towards simplicity typical of the years between 1170 and 1200.