The church was built at the end of the 18th century and was restored in 1861, when the vestry was added and the stair to the tower built. At this restoration the chancel appears to have been considerably modernized, the present chancel arch then being inserted and the east window 'Gothicized' internally; the oak panelling now round the vestry walls was then no doubt taken from the chancel and placed in its present position. The chancel is lighted by round-headed windows, one in the east and two in the south wall, and the nave by three—one on the north and two on the south. Between the windows in the south wall of the chancel is a priest's doorway.The first stage of the tower is used as the main entrance to the building and has immediately over it a small organ gallery, seen from the body of the church through the tower arch, which is tall with a semicircular head.
All the walls are of red brick with stone dressings and are plastered internally. With the exception of those on the south side of the chancel, which have flat external architraves on the outside, all the windows have moulded archivolts with flat keystones.At the eaves level is a stone cornice of a simple cavetto section. Over the chancel is a segmental barrel vault of oak divided into panels by moulded ribs. The nave is roofed in a similar manner, but the vault is more modern. All the roofs are tiled.
The tower is thickly overgrown with ivy. The ringing stage is lighted by three small circular windows and the bell-chamber by four round-headed ones.
The bowl and upper part of the stem of the font date from the middle of the 12th century, but the lower part is modern. On plan it is circular and is rudely carved in low relief with a continuous arcade of fifteen interlacing arches, and a band of flowing leaf enrichment above. A modern stone rim has been fixed round the top of the bowl, and the cover is also new. Below the bowl is a narrow necking, and at the head of each of the six panels of the modern stem is a grotesque face, the upper part of the series being original.
There appear to be two bells, the smaller, probably of the 17th century, with an unintelligible inscription,and the larger by John Martin of Worcester, 1671.
The plate consists of an 1839 silver chalice, a modern silver paten, an electro-plated flagon, an electroplated paten with a cover, a large brass alms dish and two smaller ones.
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