In 1115 Walter de Gant gave a carucate of land at Argam to Bardney Abbey, intending to found a chapel there. Around 1180-90, there was a chapel there, for the abbot of Bardney granted the chapel with some tithes to the son of Malger of Argam.
The church was allowed to fall into ruin in the late sixteenth century. It had disappeared by 1632. A ceremony was conducted in about 1630 when the incumbent was instituted in a bumpy field where the stones of the former church poked through the turf. Incumbents were still appointed until 1877, when the post was amalgamated with the curacy of Sewerby, Marton and Grindall (that is, Grindale). See Butler, 2000, 5, also VCHER, II, 6-8.
