Chaddleworth / Ceadelanuurthe / Cedeledorde / Cedeneord / Chadlyngworth / Chadworth / Cheddeworth / Chedeleswrth / Chedelworth / Chedileswrth / Chedlesworth

There are two entries for Chaddleworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4177/chaddleworth/] [accessed 25 May 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The earliest mention of a church at Chaddleworth occurs towards the end of the 12th century, when Ralph de Chaddleworth granted it to the newly-established priory of Poughley. [...] The building has been very much altered from time to time, but appears to be substantially of late 12th-century date, to which period the present nave and lower part of the tower belong. [...] The font consists of a plain circular stone basin, apparently of 12th-century date, on a modern stone base, and is lined with lead. There is also a small 18th-century pillar font with fluted shaft." The font described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a round baptismal font mounted on a slender base, appears to be the modern font. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2015). A chapel in the hamlet of Wooley is reported in the VCH entry [cf. supra]: "erected at Woolley at an early date, for it formed part of the original endowment of Poughley given by Ralph de Chaddleworth in the 12th century. [,,,] In 1549 it was returned as a free chapel founded by Richard Tate for a priest to say mass at certain times in the year. There was then no incumbent, and the Tates took the profits for their own use. [...] The chapel was pulled down before 1759, [...] and the site is still known." It is not clear, however, whether this chapel had baptismal rights.