Colchester No. 8 / 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 botough in the Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 9, 1994) notes: "Architectural evidence shows that the church was founded by the 12th century or earlier. [...] Before 1242 the advowson was held by Ralph Somer; it was granted to Coggeshall abbey in 1253 [...] The church of St. James, the largest in Colchester [...] in the 12th century the church may have been cruciform [...] The church underwent a major reconstruction in the late 15th century"; no font is mentioned in the VCH entry for this church. The entry for this church in Historic England [List entry Number: 1307051] does not mention a font in it either.