Lower Shuckburgh / Nether Shugbury / Shockbourgh / Shuckborough / Socheberge / Sucheberga

There are three entries for [Lower and Upper] Shuckburgh [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/lower-and-upper-shuckburgh/] [accessed 6 February 2015], but neither mentions cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 6, 1951) notes: "Lower Shuckburgh was a chapelry of Priors Hardwick, [...] which church was appropriated to Coventry Priory by Bishop Molend in 1260. [...] The church of ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, Lower Shuckburgh, on the north side of the SouthamDaventry road, stands in the centre of a small churchyard, the paths planted with avenues of yew trees. Before 1860, when it was completely rebuilt, the church consisted of chancel and nave, apparently of the late 13th century, a low west tower, perhaps contemporary, crowned with a pyramidal cap, and a south porch. [...] evidence of an earlier church is a 13th-century font [...] The font, placed at the west end of the north aisle, dates from the 13th century and has a slightly tapered circular basin with eight sunk panels with pointed heads, a deep lead-lined basin, and a square stem of modern bricks." The old basin is a rather crude piece of work, its shape round and tapering, as indicated above, but irregular; the sides are decorated with a crude arcade of broad pointed arches, and a flat moulding around the lower end; the stem and lower base are modern. The wooden font cover is flat, round and plain; appears modern.