A church was recorded here in 1254 during the Norwich Taxation, but the oldest part of the present building is the nave dating from about 1400.
People associated with the church include the Welsh botanist Hugh Davies, born in 1739 when his father Lewis was the rector;[REF] Thomas Ellis Owen, rector from 1794, who wrote anti-Methodist pamphlets;[REF] and James Henry Cotton (rector in 1814; appointed Dean of Bangor Cathedral in 1838) [REF].