Worcester No. 8 / Uueogorna / Vveogorna / Weogorna / Wigornia / Wirccester / Wirecestre

There are three entries for Worcester [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO8454/worcester/] [accessed 30 October 2014], neither of which mention cleric or church in it. Miller (1890) notes the re-building of this church in 1772, and has no information on the old church here other that the name and date of the first recorded rector, "Richard Parson ... 1219". The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "It is possible that St. Martin was the church mentioned among the boundaries of Perry in the charter of Bishop Wulfstan" [NB: probably Wulfstan II, the pre-Conquest bishop of Worcester who retained his office under William]; the medieval church, continues the VCH (ibid.): "was rebuilt in red brick with stone dressings in 1771 from the designs of Anthony Keck [...] The fittings are old, but the seats, font and east window are recent." [NB: we have no information on the font of the early church here].