The church at Cosby is mostly later Middle ages in the Decorated and Perpendicular style, older parts have been hidden by subsequent renovation and rebuilding, the first rector is recorded in 1220 but there was a place of worship on the site for a considerable period before.
The church consists of a nave, south aisle, chancel, north vestry, and west tower with a very elegant slender spire recessed behind the battlements. There is an external projection for the rood-loft stair which would have given access to the rood loft between the chancel and nave area and then onward to the roof .
The church has a medieval piscina, a restored Chancel screen which dates from the 14th century and an old chest reputedly carved out of a tree trunk and over 800 years old. The font is hard to date, but sits perhaps on a Saxon base. The Early English windows in the north nave wall have small amounts of medieval glass.
There are some interesting episodes from the records of the church courts at the time which used to deal with a whole range of cases affecting ordinary layman; probate of wills, defamation, allegations of immoral behaviour etc. In 1625 they imposed penances on Richard Hill of Cosby and his wife for 'fornication before marriage', and in 1773 heard charges against a William Langton, a private tutor of Cosby for brawling in the churchyard.
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