Silverley / Severlai

There is an entry for Silverley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL7060/silverley/] [accessed 7 July 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) reports: "The church is in ruins". The Victoria County History (Cambridge…, vol. 10, 2002) notes: "The remains of Silverley church stand at a road junction 1½ km. south of the village. The church was dedicated to ALL SAINTS by 1447. […] The tower, which is all that survives, was being built in 1517 […] and roofed in 1528, when there were also stalls and a rood loft. […] Money was left for repairs in 1562 and burial was requested in the churchyard in 1564. […] The largest farmer in the parish was renting the former church and churchyard in 1574-5, […] and the church served as a barn in 1627. […] Everything apart from the tower and some fragmentary walling had gone by 1752 […] and probably by 1705. […] The village tradition is that it was destroyed by Cromwell's soldiers. […] In 1827 there was enough left to suggest former north and south porches. […] The tower is built of flint rubble with limestone dressings and has a west window. […] The upper stage was hurriedly demolished in 1971, when prompt local action saved the remainder." Ben Colburn (2004) writes in the Cambridgeshire Churches: "The village of Silverley was mentioned at Domesday, and the earliest mention of a church here was in 1177. Since then, though there has been a long, slow dying of the village. In 1554 the parish was merged with neighbouring Ashley, and the last request for burial here was in 1564. The village itself dwindled after that, and the local historian Paul Saunders (whose article on Silverley I have found extremely useful) notes that Silverley appears to have completely disappeared between the 17th century and the 19th century. [...] What is left of All Saints sits in a little wood, some way to the south of Ashley on the Lidgate road [...] All that is left now, though, is the west tower". [NB: we have no information on the original font(s) of this church].