Landbeach / Bece / Bech

There are two entries for Landbeach [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4765/landbeach/] [accessed 29 June 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or priest in it. Paley's Guide (1844) states: "There is no ancient font, a marble mortar having usurped its place." There had been information a year earlier, in 1843 (Ecclesiologist, ii (June 1843), 172), which is footnoted in the Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 9 (1989)), in which it is stated that "Masters [i.e., Robert Masters] had [...] replaced the old font with a marble basin placed on the old stem, itself replaced in 1846". The VCH entry (ibid.) adds: "The advowson of Landbeach church, which has always remained a rectory, and to which presentations were recorded from the late 12th century, […] then belonged to the Beach family. […] The church was considerably reconstructed and refurnished after 1350. […] The fabric is mainly 14th-century, although the base of the tower and the chancel walling may date from before 1300." The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL4765865358] (1962) reports: "modern font on medieval base. Piscenae [sic] and stoup in south aisle".