Ilchester / Ciulecestra / Ecclesiam Sanct Andree / Giul / Giuelcestra / Giuelcestre

There are two entries for Ilchester [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST5222/ilchester/] [accessed 7 February 2018], both of which report a church in it. The entry for Ilchester in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 3, 1974) notes: "At the height of its prosperity in the 13th century Ilchester was divided between at least six parishes. The town may earlier have come within the parochia of St. Andrew's church, Northover, in origin evidently a minster of Saxon date. [...] In addition to the parish churches the town contained a house of Dominican friars [....] and, by the late 15th century, two chapels [...] The church of St. Mary the Greater, now St. Mary Major, is the only church in the town to survive to the present day" [the VCH mentions no font] [NB: the churches listed in the VCH entry are: St John the Baptist's (documented 1207; in ruins by Leland's time); St Leonard's Chapel (documented 1476; demolished 1797?]; St Mary the Less' aka St Mary Minor (founded 1227-1228; still standing in Leland's time, but had evidently disappeared a century later; St Michael's Bowe (documented 1311; last heard of 1576); St Olave's (pre-Conquest; last heard of 1590s); St Peter's (documented ca. 1191; last heard of in the 15th century); Whitehall Chapel (ca. 1242; last heard of 1591); Holy Trinity Chapel (known 1415; sold 1600); St Mary Major (in Muchelney abbey's patronage until 1239)]. The Parish Council web site [http://www.ilchesterparishcouncil.gov.uk/Core/IlchesterPC/Pages/Church_3.aspx] [accessed 22 September 2009] notes: "octagonal font. Made from Ham stone in the Early English period, it was salvaged in two pieces from the churchyard when the Rev. Joseph Horrocks was Rector (1912-27)." Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958).