Doddenham / Dodeham / Dodnam / Douddenham / Dudeham

There is an entry for Doddenham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO7556/doddenham/] [accessed 25 September 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Noake (1851) notes a chapel or church at Knightwick: "The chapel is like a small barn, being as it were a mere shell of a building [...] The walls are as old as the period of the Conquest [...] There is here a round massive font, ornamented with the chevron, being probably of the same date with the chapel". Doddenham shares an entry with Knightwick in Miller (1890); it mentions a modern (1855) church of St. Mary, and a mortuary chapel, "built on the side of the old church [...] completed 1879". The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) entry for Doddenham notes: "The descent of the advowson of Doddenham has always been the same as that of Knightwick, [...] the livings having been united from early times. [...] The church of ST. MARY, erected in 1856 at Knightsford Bridge [...] fittings are all modern, with the exception of the plain circular tub font, which is of the 12th century." Doddenham entry in Brooks and Pevsner (2007) notes: "Plain Norman tub font, on a round base; from Knightwick", while their entry for Knightwick (ibid.) has: "Font. Part of a round Norman bowl, with closely set chevron; originally at St. Andrew, Doddenham." The VCH entry for Knighwick adds: "The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "The advowsons of the chapels of Knightwick and Doddenham were given by Simon de Mans about 1177 to the Prior and convent at Worcester for the souls of his father and mother and himself. [...] The church of ST. MARY THE VIRGIN, built in 1856 at Knightsford Bridge in Doddenham, serves for both Knightwick and Doddenham, and will be described with the latter parish, which is in the hundred of Doddingtree. The site of the previous church is on a small hill about a mile to the east of Knightsford Bridge. It was an old black and white timbered structure with a fine wooden porch, and was pulled down by John Francis Greswolde-Williams in 1879". The CRSBI (2014) entry for St. Mary, Doddenham, notes: "Doddenham old church was dedicated to St Andrew, but the present 19thc. building is dedicated to St Mary" and illustrates a font: "This is a simple, almost straight-sided tub-shape on a plain, round base and plinth. It is difficult to be certain that the font is 12thc., but the destroyed Knightwick church was certainly Romanesque as evidenced by drawings and photographs held locally. The font seems to have been brought from the destroyed Knightwick church which was a short distance away. The font is not recorded in Pevsner" [i.e., the original edition of Pevsner's Worcestershire, of 1968] [NB: measurements for the plain font are given in the CRSBI entry (ibid.): "h. of bowl: 0.45m / w. of bowl: 0.74 m / circ. of bowl: 3.24m / int diam of bowl: 0.50m / int d of bowl: 24m"]