Cockley Cley No. 3

PROBLEM WITH IDENTIFICATION BETWEEN "CLEY" AND "COCKLEY CLEY" AS ST PETER's (church destroyed in the 16thC) AND ST MARY's (Norman chapel turned into cottage) ARE INCLUDED IN BOTH -- [cf. Index entry for Cley] There were three churches in Cockley Cley: All Saints', St. Mary's and St. Peter's. White's Directory of 1845 notes: "The CHURCH (All Saints) is a venerable fabric, with a short round tower; and near it was a small chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, which was for many years occupied as the rectory-house, but what remains of it is now a cottage. There was also another church (St. Peter's,) at the east end of the village, said to have been burnt down in the reign of Elizabeth. The rectory of All Saints, and the vicarage of St. Peter, valued in the King's Book at £8. 17s. 1d., and in 1831 at £158, are consolidated, in the gift of T.R. Buckworth, Esq., and incumbency of the Rev. Robert Rolfe, M.A., who is also rector of Caldecot and Thurgarton, in this county, and of Yaxley, in Suffolk." [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church here]