The church is mentioned in a charter of 1185-6, but its early history is as obscure as that of the village itself (VCH). It was a chapel of the prebendal church at Thame in the C13th, perhaps before, and like it, also had the status of a peculiar. Although it separated from Thame in 1547, it came under its peculiar jurisdiction until the C19th. (VCH).
The church belongs to the benefice of Thame with Crowell and Sydenham.