Wendy-cum-Shingay / Wandei / Wandrie

There are two entries for Wendy [variant spelling] in te Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3247/wendy/] [accessed 8 June 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 2, 1948) reports a church in Wendy in the mid-12th century. The VCH (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 8, 1982) adds: "Robert the chamberlain gave Wendy church to the monks of Ely whom he had established at Denny before 1159, and with Denny it was transferred to the Knights Templars by c. 1170. [...] Little is known of the medieval church, part of which may have dated from the early 12th century. [...] In 1522 Sir Thomas Sheffield, preceptor of Shingay, rebuilt the chancel, and perhaps the whole church. [...] By 1734 the church was ruinous and a faculty was obtained to rebuild it. [...] The new church, completed by Samuel Sandys in 1737 [...] was taken down and a new church was opened on the same site in 1866 [...] The new font was a replica of one found during the excavation of the old foundations." [NB: we have no information on the original font of the medieval church].