The parish church was designated as a Grade II listed building in 1959. It is constructed of rubble stone with ashlar buttresses, stone slate roofs and a roughcast tower. The tower is at the west end and dates to the fifteenth century. It has three stages and a parapet with battlements. The main structure was built in 1836 and has a nave, a chancel and a porch on the south side. The interior has ribbed Gothic vaulting to the nave and chancel, a thirteenth century font, a Jacobean pulpit, a Gothic organ and box pews from 1836 in the nave.

The high profile vicar of Easton Grey during the Victorian age, The Rev'd William Birch, was responsible not only for the construction of the school and the new vicarage but also the church itself.  It was he who forced through the demolition of the villgae church in 1836 and the construction of the new building.  The last act was bitterly opposed by the villagers who did not want their old church knocked down.  There was a Hardy-esque confrontation between the educated new-comer Mr Birch and the local people. The rural dean backed the new rector and stated that if the villagers wished to keep the old church they needed to pay restoration costs of £185.00, a huge bill for those times.  The old church which had stood since the 14th century was demolished except for the tower.  It is in many ways sad the Victorians felt it necessary to demolish a church which had been in constant use for 500 years.  Within the church is a list of rectors since the first one appointed in July 1311 - Thomas de Hope.  

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Rector, Gauzebrook Group of Churches

t: 01666 311177