The tiny rural hamlet of Silvington is 4 miles NW of Cleobury Mortimer. Its small unaisled church has a 13thc tower and a Transitional tower arch with sculptural decoration. The nave is 12thc to early 13thc; the chancel and chancel arch are 13thc. The windows have 14thc tracery.

The 12thc Romanesque features are the S doorway; the blocked N doorway, the tower arch and the font below it, and one loose capital.

In Domesday Book the land at Silvington was valued at £0.5. The tenant-in-chief remained the abbey of Saint-Rémi in Rheims. Earl Aelfgar had gifted Silvington to that abbey in the mid-11thc along with other lands in Staffordshire. There is no mention of a church in DB, but in the early 12thc a cleric named Aluric and his family rented Silvington from Saint-Rémi. (Eyton 1857, 380)

Both Cranage and Pevsner state that the church is dedicated to St Nicholas.

It is uncertain whether the grey sandstone sections that form the top sections of the nook shafts on the S doorway are original. There are remains of concrete on the L nook shaft. The scallop capital on the S doorway appears to be original.

The decoration on the L capital of the 1st order of the tower arch resembles some of the decoration on the capitals at Shawbury.

The original location of the loose capital is unclear. (Fieldworker)