Most likely built on a pre-Christian site.
There was a Saxon Church but nothing remains.
1086-The Norman church was built. On the left of the south door a fine Norman font can be seen with chevron decoration. The North and West walls remain from this building although it is best seen from outside showing the porch and doorway.
1410-Just inside the door of the screen is a brass to John Balsam, a former rector. (one of the oldest brasses in the county).
15th Century- Font surmounted with a canopy. The tower also comes from this date.
1624-In the Lady Chapel can be found a fine slate memorial to Humphrey Kempe of Lavethan.
1640-In the church you can see the Royal Arms of James I.
1662-The communion table of this date can be found in the front of the screen on the right.
1791-There is a chapel, all that remains of the South Aisle " a sort of mortuary and private chapel" by Morshead, with its own south door originally belonging to Lavethan Manor. It is now used as a vestry The leaning pillar and consequent distortion of the roof is due to the many burials beneath the floor of this aisle. AT the restoration the mortal remains were re- uried in the churchyard and marked by an old cross and the words "Unknown yet well known" this can seen on the west boundary of the churchyard.
1986-Left in the North transept where a fine slate memorial of the date can be found.
1894-The rood screen which replaced the mediaeval screen (of which there is no trace). It is surmounted by the rood of Oberammergau figures .
1912- The lectern was given by the congregation of St George's Chapel Lorento, Italy.
Note.
On the North wall is a statue of the Virgin and Child a copy of one by Reimenschneider dated 1520 in the Frankfurt Museum. It formed an outdoor shrine at Lavethan, then the Rectory garden.
The Pulpit is Jacobean.