In 1553, Pope Julius III sanctioned the allotment of ecclesiastical benefice to secular professors. These declared that no ecclesiastical benefice could be bestowed on a foreign ecclesiastic. The Abbey's attempts to appropriate subsided and the living (benefice) stayed as a rectory. The two parish churches were reunited in 2012 under one benefice. Later amalgamations made it part of a benefice of six parishes. The college retains the right to present candidates for the benefice to the bishop. The document was an act concerning the investiture of the benefice of SS. The Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors are the patrons of the benefice. Today the church is part of the Chalke Valley benefice. The church is part of the Winchcombe benefice and occasional services are held. Today, the church forms part of a united benefice with Thringstone and Swannington. He had hoped for a church benefice, but none came. Another reform was the requirement that any holder of a benefice must reside there. Brixworth is part of a united Benefice along with Holcot. The church is today part of the United Benefice of Bro Sancler.