Woodplumpton, from approach, seems like an entirely post-medieval church. The S aisle was apparently built in 1748 in a rather English Baroque manner. The crennelation however suggests it was a refacing of a Late Perpendicular wall. Inside its medieval origins are clearer. There are two arcades, no chancel arch, similar to nearby St Michael on Wyre. The capitals on the S are extremely crude and may be post-Reformation. The end wall of the N aisle is in a different stone and suggests this was the first medieval expansion. There is an early 20thc vestry built on the E end of the N side of the N aisle. Set into what was originally the N aisle outer wall, are some Romanesque fragments found c. 1900.

Plumpton (comprising Great, Little and Fieldplumpton) is mentioned in Domesday under the manor of Preston, owned by Earl Tostig and then King William, essentially covering the whole hundred of Amounderness. It does not appear in the 1291 Taxatio. There is essentially no historical record of the church until the Reformation. It was likely a chapel of St Michael on Wyre.