Shenley nr. London Colney / Scenlai / Scenlei / Seneleia / Senlai / Shenle

There are three entries for this Shenley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL1801/shenley/] [accessed 19 September 2016], none of which mention cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Hertfordshire, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "It would seem that the tithes of Shenley were conferred upon the priory of Hurley, which was founded by Geoffrey de Mandeville in 1136 […] From what remains of the [present] church it appears to have been rebuilt in the early part of the fifteenth century, probably about 1424 […] The font at the west end is externally of plaster" [NB: a modern 19thC font]. The former church, now a private dwelling, was described in Crawley (1880): "small Church, dedicated to St. Botolph, composed of chalk, flint, and brick, with a curious wooden tower and three bells"; there is no mention of the font. The church is reported in the Hertfordshire genealogy page [www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/places/places-s/shenley.htm]: "St Botolph, 1 mile north of the village was declared redundant in 1972. The fragment of a larger building for which Maud, Countess of Salisbury, lect [sic] money in 1424. Chancel and tower arch were pulled down after a fire in 1753." [NB: this church became redundant in 1972, was deconsecrated and turned into a private dwelling in the early 1980s -- we have no information on the whereabouts of its 15th-century font, or the one from the original church] [NB: the Church of England's A Church Near You lists an open church in Shenley, Herts.: St. Martin's, built in 1841 [London Road, Shenley, Hertfordshire, WD7 9DU]]