The Domesday return states that there was a church in Winchelesmere and that the church belonged to Odo, bishop of Bayeux (Domesday 1 Kent (1983), 5:81). In 1851 Arthur Hussey observed that 'the church stands quite solitary, is very small, and, like some other churches in that neighbourhood, has a Norman doorway, apparently reinserted' (Hussey 1852, 165).