Longborough lies two and a half miles N of Stow-on-the-Wold. The church, which is built of coursed and squared limestone with a stone slate roof, consists of a 12thc chancel with vestry on the N, a nave with S transept, a 19thc N chapel, and a W tower. There was a general restoration of the church in 1884. The N and S nave doorways and the reset chancel arch date from the 12thc.

The Domesday Survey records that in 1066 there were five manors in 'Langeberge' held by Tovi, Alstan, Balecmann, Eadric and Alric. By 1086 this had been consolidated to two manors, one of two hides held by the Count of Mortain and the other of four hides held by Humphrey the Chamberlain. The manors subsequently passed to the Mortimer family and by 1256 they were held by Richard, Earl of Cornwall.