West Camel / Camelle [Domesday]

There is an entry for [West] Camel [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST5724/west-camel/] [accessed 6 February 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "a handsome sculptured font" in this church. Described in Wade & Wade (1929): "The font is Norm[an], with shallow arcading round the basin". Described in Pevsner (1958). The Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 3, 1974) notes: "If the fragment of decorated crossshaft, influenced by the Jellinge style and now mounted in the north transept, originated in the parish, then the church must date from the late 9th or early 10th century. [...] The earliest written evidence yet traced is from 1219, [...] but the Norman font, if not the cross-shaft, is evidence of a church building at an earlier date [...] The present cruciform building dates from the late 13th and earlier 14th centuries with some 15th-century alterations." The font has been restored, or, rather, re-built, with the original carved drum showing the intersecting arches; the rest is all modern. The oak cover, bearing a dedicatory inscription, is also modern.