Springthorpe village lies approximately 4 miles E of Gainsborough. The church is comprised of an 11thc W tower, a two-bay nave with a S aisle of the 14thc, and a 19thc chancel with N and S side chapels. There were renovations in 1845, 1876, and 1895. Inside the 19thc S porch is a Romanesque S doorway.

Domesday Book records a church and a priest in 'Springthorpe and Corringham', a nearby village; both were holdings of King William in 1086. The W towers of both of these churches are 11thc, so while it is unclear to which church Domesday Book is making reference, the architectural evidence allows for a stone church in Springthorpe in the last quarter of the 11thc.

In addition to the insertions of renewed material in the arches and the restoration work on the nook-shafts of order 3, the misaligned voussoirs, separated impost sections, missing necking of order 3, and the renewed ashlars of the nooks, indicate a significant rebuilding of this doorway.