 The earliest known record of a parish church at Kirtington is in the Domesday Book of 1086.The oldest visible parts of the present Church of England parish church of St Mary the Virgin include the early 12th-century Norman arches supporting the central bell tower, and a tympanum of the same date that is now over the vestry door.Beneath the floor of the chancel are the foundations of a former apse that also was built early in the 12th century.