Noted as in the Domesday Book: ‘Bolle the priest has the church of ‘Winfrode’…(he also held the churches at Puddletown, Chaldon and Fleet.)
Glynn visited the church in 1842, before the extensive restoration was carried out, and detailed the appearance of the N door (then covered by a porch) and the chancel arch, which would appear today to match what he then saw.