East Hatley / Castell Hatley / Hatelai

There are three entries for [East] Hatley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL2850/east-hatley/] [accessed 6 June 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. [NB: the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (West Cambs., 1968) reports no font in this church, probably an indication that it had already disappeared by the time of the RCHM inventory taking in this county]. The Victoria County Histor (Cambridge..., vol. 8, 1982) notes: "church, recorded by 1217 [...] The [present] church was probably built mainly late in the 13th century, although reconsecrated in 1352. [...] By 1685 the north door was blocked, and the nave choked with large pews. The font, then consigned to a stable, (fn. 190) had been replaced by 1748. [...] The church was restored in 1873–4 to designs by William Butterfield. The chancel was lengthened and largely rebuilt, the arch being widened. The bellcot and south porch were reconstructed, and a new pulpit, font, and stone reredos installed." The Cambridgeshire Churches site [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/easthatley.htm] [accessed 24 October 2007] informs that "but the medieval church had become ruinous by the 19th century - the tower had fallen, the bell had cracked and the whole thing was unsafe", and that it was later "rebuilt by Butterfield [...] in 1874 to serve its resurgent community". This site further informs that "the church was finally declared redundant in 1980 (the last service had been in 1959) the building was simply abandoned, and is now [i.e., 2004] slowly crumbling into the soil".