Warborough is not mentioned by name in the Domesday Survey, because it formed part of the large royal manor of Benson. The Crown held most of Warborough until the 17thc, but granted and rented llands to theres at various times. The earliest of these was a gift of land in Shillingford, to the S of Warborough to the nuns of Godstow by separate grants of Stephen and Matilda between 1136 and 1141. In Warborough itself the first grant was one of rents in Warborough and Shillingford made to the Chapel of St Nicholas in Wallingford Castle by Edmund, Earl of Cornwall in 1278.
As for the church, it is presumed to have been subject to the church at Benson from the beginning, but in 1140-42, Benson church was granted to Dorchester Abbey along with its dependencies, including Warborough. There appears to be no evidence of a chapel here beyond that provided by the church itself. Nothing here is earlier than the font, from the later 12thc., while none of the fabric can be dated before the 13thc. The dedication to St Laurence is not recorded before the 18thc.