The visible church, a single-aisled building with a west tower, is said to date from the seventeenth century, though its exterior has been covered in pebbledash and its interior plastered, which makes independent assessment difficult. Lit by three round-headed windows with chamfered granite jambs set into each wall, and floored in stone flags, the building retains a spare, functional quality. Scattered across that flagged floor are early eighteenth-century memorials, flat and worn, the kind that are easy to walk over without registering what they are.

The deeper strangeness lies in what surfaces during burials. Remains of a fifteenth-century church have been recorded appearing in the north side of the graveyard when graves are opened, meaning an older structure lies just below ground, encountered only by accident. The question of who the church was ever dedicated to has never been fully resolved. Competing claims have been made for Saints Mantan, Thomas, and Patrick, and the dispute appears longstanding. A documentary reference from 1468, cited by MacNeill, names it as St Patrick's church Wykenglo, using a medieval form of the town's name, but this has not settled the matter. The co-existence of two overlapping buildings, the uncertainty about patronage, and the way the earlier church re-emerges only when the earth is disturbed all give the site a slightly unresolved character, as though it has never quite finished revealing itself.