 By the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 the Benedictine Abingdon Abbey seems to have held the parish church at Welford and its chapel at Wickham.During the reign of Henry I (between 1100 and 1135) St. Swithin's had to provide of candle-wax per year for the altar at Abingdon Abbey.In 1396 St. Swithin's paid 50 shillings per year to the Abbey in lieu of of candle-wax.