Shudy Camps

There are two entries for [Castle and Shudy] Camps in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/castle-and-shudy-camps/] [accessed 17 May 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is reported in Parker (1848): "the base of the font is octagonal plain P and is half built into the wall the upper part is modern". Kelly's County Directory of 1929 notes: "The church of St. Mary, an edifice of rubble in the Perpendicular style, is said to have been originally built about the year 1060", and that records of baptisms in this church date back to 1558. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 6, 1978) notes: "Shudy Camps had a church by c. 1200 [...] Fragments of 12th-century carvings have been re-used in the walls, and the south doorway of the chancel is probably 13th-century." The Shudy Camps web site [www.rd29.net/cc/shudycamps/stmarys.html] [accessed 17 May 2016] quotes from a 1742 diary by William Cole: "The stone font stands near the belfry." A polygonal font of moulded sides is now in use in this church; it appears modern. [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the medieval baptismal font(s) of this church].