The earliest references to the church state that John de London, Henry III's chaplain, obtained from the King a grant of the Manor of Bladon, with the advowson of the Rectory in 1269[citation needed].

This print shows an ornate Norman doorway to the south porch, which suggests a 12th or late 11th century date for the building.

[1] Unlike the medieval church, the new building has no clerestory and despite the windows that Blomfield added the interior remains relatively dark.

The work was carried out largely at the expense of the rector, Arthur Majendie, and resulted in the creation of the present church.

Accordingly, on 30 January 1965, after his state funeral service at St Paul's Cathedral, London, his body was taken by train to nearby Hanborough railway station and thence to Bladon.

Sir Winston Churchill's daughter Marigold who died of sepsis of the throat in 1921[4] was originally buried in Kensal Green Cemetery before being re-interred at Bladon in 2020.

[2] The churchyard is the subject of the poem "At Bladon", by Avril Anderson (also known as Mrs Crabtree), which was read on the air as part of the BBC's broadcast of Winston Churchill's funeral.