 It would have been built before the Norman conquest, about the year 1051, by Normans in the service of Osbern Pentecost, a follower of Ralph de Mantes and supporter of Edward the Confessor.The Hereford County and City Lunatic Asylum, later known as St Mary's Hospital after the church, was erected in the village in 1868.It closed in the 20th century after use as a psychiatric hospital and was demolished to make way for a housing estate in 1994.