In 718 King Aethelbald of Mercia granted six hides at Daylesford to establish a monastery. By 820 a church here was under the patronage of the bishops of Worcester, and the hundred of Daylesford annexed to Worcestershire (becoming part of Gloucestershire in 1931). Daylesford was assessed at three hides for Domesday book. From the 12thc the estate was held by the Hastings family, who sold it in 1715, to be bought back by Warren Hastings in 1793. He rebuilt the 12thc church apparently on the same lines as its two-cell predecessor, but that building was pulled down to make way for the present church. This was rebuilt 1859-63 by J. L. Pearson, for the owner of the estate, Harman Grisewood, who also replaced the estate houses in the village.