Sheering No. 1 / Seeringa

There is an entry for Sheering [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL5013/sheering/] [accessed 8 June 2018], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The entry for this church in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) reports: "Font: broken up and stored in tower--square bowl with shallow round-headed panels, cylindrical stem and square plinth with bases of detached shafts, 12th-century." The Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 8, 1983) notes: "Architectural evidence suggests that there was a church in the 12th century [...] Fragments of 12th-century diaper work formerly noted in the church suggest that the church already existed then [...] The 12th-century font, formerly in pieces, has been restored." Noted in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "in the tower. Square bowl with shallow blank arcading and detached corner shafts." [NB: a modern copy of this font, made in 1903, is reported in use at the time [2007]]. The web site of Sheering Parish Church [www.essexinfo.net/st_marys_sheering/our-history/] mentions a "restored 12th century font, a copy of which stands in the nave" [site accessed on 16 May 2006]. This latter source (ibid.) notes also that "in the south wall near the porch, a stoup was discovered buried in the wall during restoration work" [cf. Index entry for Sheering No. 2 for this stoup]