Friskney is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, 12 miles NE of Boston and just over 3 miles NW of the coast. The church stands at the N end of the village centre. It is primarily a Perpendicular church with W tower, nave with five-bay side aisles, clerestory, and a long chancel. The tower is Norman in its lowest parts, the next stages are 13thc and the remainder is Perp. The tower staircase doorway is 12thc as are the N doorway of the nave, fragments of an arch re-used as a base in the churchyard, and a fragment of a grave-cover in the churchyard wall. The aisles were rebuilt by Butterfield in 1879.

Accoding to the Domesday Survey, Svartbrand had 2 bovates of land in 1066, held in 1086 by Ketilbjorn in demesne.

On the N doorway of the nave, the waterleaf capital and pointed arch place the doorway in the late 12thc. The lack of imposts and anomalous treatment of the R nook-shaft capital suggest a later rebuilding. Much of the pointed arch is renewed stonework.

If the elaborate chevron blocks in the lamp post base and the grave-cover fragment are from this site, then a stone church was here by the mid-twelfth century though the remaining fabric is all of later date. Three complete grave covers of this type are to be found at Ingoldmells.