Weethley / Wilelei

There is an entry for Weethley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP0555/weethley/] [accessed 27 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 3, 1945) notes: "The chapel of Weethley, which was attached to the church of Kinwarton, [...] was held by Ralph of Kinwarton, and given by him to the abbey of Evesham towards the close of the 12th century. [...] The church of ST. JAMES was built in 1857–8 of lias stone in the 13thcentury style and consists of an apsidal chancel, nave with bell-turret, north porch, and south vestry. It replaced an ancient building, restored in 1839, [...] which was no doubt that described c. 1640: 'The chappell is buylded all of tymber, being halftymbered both the chancell and the church. It standeth on a pretty high hill; southwards and westwards it hath a great discent and a very fyne prospect. There is both buriall and christning here. . . . There are no armes nor monuments.'" [the quote is footnoted: "Hamper's notes to Dugdale (B.M.), quoting Sir Simon Archer's MS."]. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP0551555319] (1984) reports a "big octagonal font on 4 half-hipped gablets". It is presumably the font introduced in the mid-19th century re-building of this church. [NB: we have no information of the font of the original 12th-century (?) chapel here].