Colchester No. 4 / Colecastro / Colecestra

There are seventeen entries for Colchester [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL9925/colchester/] [accessed 8 June 2018]; a priest is mentioned as lord three times (two in 1066, one in 1086) and "0.5 church lands" is noted in one of the entries, but none of them mentions a church, though there must have some there at the time. The entry for this borough in the Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 9, 1994) notes: "The church's position, at an angle to the modern High Street and on the same alignment as a nearby Roman building, suggests that it existed before High Street was diverted southwards by the building of the castle bailey in the late 11th century". [NB: the other Colchester church dedicated to All Saints, at Shrub End, is Victorian]