By 1212 the church had become a prebend of St Laurence within Romsey Abbey. At the close of the 12th Century there was a wave of church building in Hampshire, due to the munificence of Henry de Blois, Bishop of Winchester and brother of King Stephen. It was at this time that a new church was built here, almost certainly on the site of its Saxon predecessor.

200 years later, in the time of William of Wykeham (or possibly as a memorial to him) a restoration took place.Very largely the church today is as it was then. Because it is a private little building in the sense that it is slightly off the beaten track it seems to have escaped both despoilation and the worst excesses of later restorations. Plainly there is some Georgian work to be seen in the interior, but that gives the building much of its charm. There is Victorian work, for instance the floor of the Sanctuary, but not enough to affect the general character of the building.

THINGS TO LOOK AT INSIDE

In the case near the screen is a nice copy of a beautiful 17th Century Chained Bible (1613) with the chain by which it was secured when books were rare and precious commodities.

The Pre-Reformation Chancel Screen is approximately 500 years old, one of only ten to be found in Hampshire.

As can be seen many of the oak pews (probably 15th Century) have been hand hewn with the adze. Originally they would have been placed against the walls for the use of the old, sick and handicapped. This gives us the origin of the phrase "go to the wall".

Also in the church is a large 13th Century pin-hinged chest. The great wooden lock on the South door is thought to be 15th Century.
There are some pieces of 15th Century glass in the North and South windows of the chancel.

The oak pulpit, with its admonitory text to the preacher, is thought to have been cut down from a two-decker, but Pevsner says only the back panel is 17th century.

The Font and its cover date from 1681. To the right of the Communion Table, in the South wall, is a pillar-piscina, approximately 500 years old.

West of the South door is an inscribed oak cupboard which once contained a library of theological books bequeathed to the church by one of its rectors, Timothy Goodacre, in 1713.

There are a few mediaeval tiles embedded in the window sill near the pulpit. One, found among the beams of the church, bears William of Wykeham's motto, the others were probably made at Beaulieu Abbey.

The plate of the church, which is not on view consists of two pattens of the early 18th Century and an unmarked chalice thought to be of the 17th.

Except for those in current use the registers, dating from before the Spanish Armada, are now in the care of the County Archivist at St Thomas Church, Southgate Street, Winchester, where they may be inspected by bonafide enquirers.

The one noticeably more modern piece of work is the East Window of quite recent date the work of William Morris Ltd. i.e. the firm that bears his name, not William Morris himself.