Wheathill church, dedicated to St John, is a late foundation: there is no reference to it in the taxation list of 1291 but the benefice was in existence in 1313.
The earliest part of the church fabric was a fragment of a decorated window, probably the cinque-foiled east window, thrown away in the restoration of 1858.
The living was a rectory, from 1854 held with East Lydford, from 1873 until 1902 with Lovington, (fn. 106) and in 1905 united with East Lydford.
In 1965 the two were joined with West Lydford, to be known thereafter as the Lydfords, and from that time Wheathill was described as a chapelry.
From 1971 the benefice became a united parish known as Lydford on Fosse.
Wheathill church was declared redundant in 1971 and in the following year was sold.
It is now a private house.
Conversion to a dwelling involved the insertion of two circular windows at the east end and a dormer on the south side.
The 'Jacobean' altar was transferred to West Lydford.
The monuments were placed in the porch.
From 2000 the former parish became part of the Wheathill Priory group, in the following year renamed Keinton Mandeville with Kingweston.

The 14thcentury church was virtually rebuilt in 1858 and medieval features including windows were removed. It was made redundant in 1971 and became a private house.
The churchyard appears to have been in domestic use even in 1846.
Wheathill is now part of South Somerset district.

The church was a simple, rectangular building of combined chancel and nave, with a porch on the south side and a bellcot on the western gable but all evidence of fabric earlier than of the Perpendicular period was removed in 1858 when the church was restored. The furniture included a pulpit of panelled deal described as modern c. 1780. There was a single bell although a new bell cot for two had been erected shortly before 1858 but by 1915 there were two small ones, which were recast into one in 1917. The church was restored again in 1886 when the floor was lowered and the ceiling boarded, but some of the earlier woodwork and the octagonal font were retained. The total seating was reduced from 34 to 28, although the church could hold more. An 'ancient' pulpit was discovered and replaced in 1937. The chancel was said to be roofless when sold and the bell cot had earlier fallen in the ridge damaging the roof and leaving the bell unusable and the west end of the church closed off.