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This small church consists of a chancel, a nave, and a large double-storied N porch, that was meant to carry a tower (Pevsner, 282). The 19thc timber chancel arch sits on short shafts with reset 12thc capitals. The nave, though restored in 1874-76, is Norman in origin, with an early 12thc S door. A slab that is now part of the altar is also Norman.
At the time of the Domesday Survey estates at Knook were held by Alweard Colling and Leofgyth, whose husband held land there before the Conquest. There was a mill, 5 acres of meadow and a pasture.
The chancel seems to have been restored or rebuilt in the 19thc.
F. Arnold-Forster, Studies in Church Dedications or England’s Patron Saints, London 1899, III, 173.
A. Clapham et al. 'The Archaeology of Salisbury and District: Salisbury Cathedral, Churches and Religious Buildings, Monuments and Sculpture' Arch J 104 1947, 144-165
Historic England listing 1285068
N. Pevsner and B. Cherry, Buildings of England: Wiltshire. 2nd edition. Harmondsworth 1975, 282-283.
H.M. Taylor and J. Taylor. Anglo-Saxon Architecture Vol 1 Cambridge, 1964, 364-365
