The church of St Nicholas is a modest medieval church serving a small village community. We do not know how tiny the settlement was in the middle ages, but neither the manor house nor the houses around the greens are earlier than the seventeenth century, and the village has continued to be a small one until today.
The church was never enlarged during the seven centuries between its Norman foundation and the late Victorian era. Two nearby churches expanded, helped by the cloth-making industry at Castle Combe in the fifteenth century and by a local landowner at West Kington who rebuilt the church in grand style during the mid nineteenth century. Biddestone was an agricultural community and remained so until the mid twentieth century.