Wynford Eagle is a hamlet about seven miles NW from Dorchester. The church was entirely rebuilt in 1840, 500 yards N of the medieval one. The present building consists of a short polygonal chancel, a nave and a W porch. Fragments and furnishings from the earlier church are incorporated into the fabric, such as a very worn fragment of chevron moulding reused in S wall. Romanesque sculpture consists of an early 12thc tympanum reset outside the W wall and a reset capital in the S wall.

The Domesday Survey records that in 1066 ‘Wenfrote’ was held by Alstan of Boscombe; in 1086 it was under the lordship of William of Eu. The manor valued £19. In the early 12thc Richard de Aquila held Wynford Eagle, and the name of the village derives from him. Formerly the church was a chapel of Toller Fratrum.