Knowle Parish Church dates from 1402, when the people of the growing community at Knowle found it difficult to attend church in Hampton-in-Arden, particularly in winter when the Blythe Valley was flooded, and so Canon Walter Cook established a further church in Knowle within the Hampton parish.

The Guild House today is a part of the adjacent Parish Church. It accommodates the Parish Office and is also a meeting space.It was originally constructed in 1412, built for the Guild of St Anne, a religious charity of the time. This Guild was dissolved at the time of the Reformation and ownership passed on.

Take a stroll along Knowle High Street from the Church to the Wilson Arms and history confronts you with every few steps in the heart of our Conservation Arae. Many of the buildings either were something else at one time or replace another of historical significance.

Between them, the Wilson Arms, the site of the Surgery and the Park beyond bring a great deal of history to the junction of Lodge Road and Warwick Road (old and new) and the estate land that once spread down the hill from that corner.