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Tucked away in a land of winding lanes and little hills and streams are its grey stone houses, looking up to a small church which has seen Norman days. It stands in a churchyard with a trickling stream and a gate shaded by a great sycamore, an aisleless building with a low tower and a short spire.
The Norman remains are in the arch of the porch and the doorway within, which has a hood adorned with a stone head in the middle and crude carvings at the ends. A round stone with a cross, let into the wall of the nave, is thought to be Norman too.
The font is of the 13th century, the bowl carved with an effective border round the top, and resting on cluttered pillars.
Fragments of mediaeval glass in the chancel glow with the arms of the old family of Kniveton; it was Lady Frances who gave the altar its lovely flagon and chalice in 1572. Sir Andrew Kniveton became so impoverished through his loyalty to Charles I that he had to sell most of the family estates.
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