The present church building, which dates from 1830, is not the first at Oldland.  

The first building had already had a long history.  Oldland was for administrative purposes a hamlet in the larger parish of Bitton, and the building was a chapel-of-ease, for the ease of those for whom Bitton was a long journey.
  Before the Reformation the parish of Bitton belonged to the Diocese of Worchester, and in its diocesan records of about 1280 there is the earliest reference to Oldland Chapel - ‘Bytton cum capella de Oldelond’.

There was not another church built between Bitton and St. Philip and St. Jacob in Bristol until the nineteenth century.

The church is dramatically sited on a well-drained hilltop - not too far from Willsbridge Mill, and once,on the edge of a forest.  The first building was noted for its rare saddleback tower.  The tower’s       

roofs ran north and south at right angles to the nave, and the tower housed three bells.  A saddleback tower is good evidence for the church being fairly old.
 You can see near the font an artists impression of this building, based on a plan of the church, also hanging on the wall there.