Edward Hutton, in his book Highways And Byways In Wiltshire, written before the outbreak of the First World War, first published in 1917, reprinted 1919, noted:
” . . . Knook . . . The church there was restored in 1882, but so ruthlessly as to hide the fact that it is of Norman foundation. It still can boast Norman work on the chancel arch, while the south door is altogether Norman, and what is more, has a remarkable tympanum very like to that of Lullington in Somerset, but not so elaborate as that at Little Langford in this valley. It seems to date between 1120 and 1150, and represents a lion or leopard and a dragon feeding on a tree.”