Binley / Bilneie / Bilveie

There are two entries for Binley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP3778/binley/] [accessed 26 January 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 6, 1951) notes: "Ranulf, Earl of Chester, in the reign of Henry I [i.e., 1100-1135] granted to the priory of Coventry the church of St. Michael, Coventry, with its chapels, including that of Binley [...] The church [...] is a small church of severe classic design and consists of an apsidal chancel, nave, north chapel, vestry, and porch. It was built at the expense of William, Lord Craven, and completed in 1773 [...] on the south side at the west end is the font, a small octagonal one of stone, each side decorated with a sunk quatrefoil, and resting on a marble shaft with a form of Ionic capital. [...] The registers commence 1656." [NB: we were unable to establish whether or not the old chapel had baptismal rights, and therefore a font, since its 12th-century days].