Sometime after 1996, an unauthorised reconstruction of the medieval church took place. Walls were rebuilt and repointed, windows were remade, and a pointed arched doorway was inserted into the western end of the south wall. The result is a building that looks, at a glance, like a surviving medieval church but is in fact a modern interpretation of one, carrying only partial relationship to the fabric that once stood here.

When inspectors recorded the church in 1996, they found something more fragmentary and, in its way, more revealing. The rectangular mortared-stone building, roughly 14 metres east to west and 7 metres north to south, appeared on Ordnance Survey maps as far back as 1838 and again on the 1930 edition. At that point the east gable still stood to about 3.5 metres, retaining a narrow lancet window, the tall, slender, pointed-arched opening typical of medieval ecclesiastical architecture, though the sides of the window had been robbed out and only the pointed sandstone arch remained intact. The south wall preserved a square-headed, inwardly splayed window near its eastern end. The north wall had largely disappeared, absorbed into the boundary wall of the surrounding graveyard. Most striking was the western gable, which survived to nearly its full original height and had, built hard against its outer face, a later stone vaulted tomb chamber, complete with a gable front, a low voussoir arch over its doorway, and a plastered interior. A voussoir arch is formed from wedge-shaped stones arranged in a curve, and the presence of plasterwork inside suggests this tomb was intended as a relatively refined funerary space rather than a simple enclosure. The probable doorway in the west gable was effectively sealed by this later addition, making the tomb chamber an accretion that both obscured and preserved what lay behind it.

The unauthorised reconstruction complicates any reading of the site today. The inserted doorway and rebuilt windows are not historical features, and what a visitor sees is a layered object: medieval origins, a later tomb pressed against the west end, and a recent intervention that smoothed over the evidence of both.