The Domesday Survey of 1086 identifies a productive manor at Baldon, held by Geoffrey of Baldon, tenant of Miles Crispin. No church is recorded until 1163, when mention is made of the ‘chapel on the fee of Peter de la Mare’. Peter was Geoffrey’s grandson. VCH (1957) suggests this chapel may have been pre-conquest, originating on the ten-acre Saxon estate at Baldon held in 1066 by Azur. The current church was either built or substantially rebuilt in 1341 by a later Peter de la Mare and the only evidence of an earlier building is the reset sundial, which VCH says came from the S wall. The church was served by the secular priests of Dorchester and, although never appropriated, remained at least nominally under the Abbey’s jurisdiction throughout the Middle Ages.