Coventry No. 6 / Coventru / Coventrv

There is an entry for Coventry [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP3379/coventry/] [accessed 26 February 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 8, 1969) notes: "The origins of the church of ST. NICHOLAS are obscure. An anonymous annalist claims that c. 1003 it was the parish church of Coventry. [...] Dugdale mentions no more than the graveyard, [...] the church itself having ceased to exist before his time or during his very early years. No parish can with certainty be assigned to St. Nicholas, unless it was the area which came within the jurisdiction of the Bishop Street leet. [...] the church had already, in 1535, been described as 'in decay and ruin' [...] by 1560 St. Nicholas seems to have been turned into a storehouse by the churchwardens of Holy Trinity [...] Nothing is known of its appearance [...] The actual site of the church and graveyard is uncertain, but both seem to have lain somewhere to the west of St. Nicholas Street, between it and Radford Road." [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church here].