This is the parish church of the parish of South Stoneham, although it is in the village of Swaythling just over the river from it. South Stoneham is recorded in the Domesday Book as being part of the lands of the Bishop of Winchester, and that are 3 churches in the area. The church does not appear in the 1291 Taxatio but in the Valor Ecclesiasticus of 1535 it is described as an appropriation of St Mary, Southampton, and both churches as being peculiars of the bishop.