St. Helen’s Church is a Grade II listed building dating to the 13th century. The building occupies a significant place within the historic village core of Stapleford and is the focus of the Church Street Conservation Area. The headstones from the churchyard have been repositioned around the churchyard boundary, meaning that the locations of any burials are no longer known. No previous archaeological work has been undertaken in St. Helen’s Church or its churchyard. The work consisted of a series of five test pits located over various points on the footprint of the proposed construction of a new Community Room building, with a connecting corridor leading to the north-western corner of the church's north aisle. 4 Test Pits contained no archaeological remains, although the sequence of made ground layers below the topsoil indicated a significant amount of landscaping had occurred during the 20th century (probably at the same time that the headstones were repositioned), raising the ground level by around 0.75m. One Test Pit was excavated to approximately 0.54m, at which depth two grave markers, probably in situ, were uncovered. These appeared to be a fallen headstone, possibly covered by turf or vegetation when the landscaping activities occurred, and a possible chest tomb or pedestal for a larger monument. No inscriptions were visible.