Apart from the tower, this medieval church was rebuilt in 1870 by Henry Stone, who also built the church at Walton on the Naze, one of the three 'Soken' (along with Kirby) under the independent jurisdiction of St Paul's Cathredral, which owned a huge estate in the Naze. The tower is a classic "East Anglian" design with diagonal buttresses, faced with knapped flint. The belfry contains 8 bells.