In 1086 Wardington was part of the Bishop of Lincoln's manor of Cropredy. The identity of the tenants is unknown, but a fee in Wardington was soon in the hands of a Chacombe (Northants) family. Godfrey of Chacombe, known from the early C12th, may be the same Godfrey who held Chacombe from the bishops in 1086. In 1166 his son Matthew held 6 fees of the see of Lincoln, and in 1186 his son Hugh succeeded him. He made grants of tithes to Eynsham Abbey and endowed, or even founded, the Augustinian Priory of Chacombe, where he eventually took the cowl.
Wardington chapel, in existence by the C12th at least, was dependent on the mother church of Cropredy until 1851, when a perpetual curacy was created in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford.