The church is of Saxon origin as evidenced by a Saxon doorway arch and characteristic stonework in part of the church. The parish, despite being west of the Avon and bounded on three sides by Somerset, is part of Wiltshire within the hundred of Bradford. In 1970 the parish was separated from Winsley and united with Freshford, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. In 1976 the parish of Hinton Charterhouse was added. The church is now in the parish of Freshford with Limpley Stoke and Hinton Charterhouse, alongside St Peter's, Freshford and St John the Baptist, Hinton Charterhouse. The graveyard is on all four sides of the church with a new section to the east. In the period 1730-2020 there were 1,885 burials and there are almost 400 memorials. There are some reputedly very early memorials but there are now very weathered and unattributable. Bath Record Office’s Bath Burial Index (https://www.batharchives.co.uk/burial-index) has online documentation of the graveyard including images of the memorials, transcriptions of inscriptions, maps and documentation of internal memorials,