The technique, known as a base batter, involves angling the lowest section of a wall outward to distribute weight more effectively, and here it was necessary because the building sits on a west-facing slope. The result is a wall that visibly splays outward as it meets the ground, most pronounced on that western end, giving the structure an almost planted, rooted quality where it meets the hillside.

The church dates to the fourteenth century and, at roughly 29 metres east to west and just under 10 metres north to south, was a substantial building for a rural parish. Its windows and doorways preserve a quiet record of medieval ecclesiastical design. Two round-arched doorways survive, with evidence of bar slots, the recesses that once held the timber bars used to secure doors from the inside. The larger of the two faces west. The north wall carries two narrow splayed windows, wider on the interior than the exterior to draw in as much light as possible, while the south wall retains traces of five windows and a partially blocked doorway with a pointed arch. The eastern gable holds the base of a three-light window, partially reconstructed, and the western gable rises to an interior height of 7.5 metres, where a single flat-headed window sits within a lintelled embrasure at its apex. From the church's position on the slope, the remains of an abbey are visible to the southwest. The two sites together suggest a landscape that was once considerably more organised around religious life than its present quiet fields imply. The church is a national monument, number 222, and is in state care.