Fulbourn No. 1 / Fulbourne / Fuleberne

There are five entries for Fulbourne [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL5256/fulbourn/] [accessed 19 July 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 10, 2002) notes: "Like several other Cambridgeshire townships, Fulbourn had from the 12th century two churches, which stood together in one churchyard until one fell in 1766. Even thereafter their two parishes remained formally distinct, although the two benefices were united in 1876. […] Rectors were recorded for both churches from the 1190s […] The two churches of ALL SAINTS, so named by 1185, (fn. 149) and ST. VIGOR, so named by the 1220s, […] formerly stood barely 7 ft. (2 m.) apart in the south-eastern and north-western parts of the same churchyard near the southeast end of the main street. […] Earlier use of that site for religious purposes is suggested by the surviving head of a stone wheel-headed cross carved with interlace, perhaps dating from c. 1000, found under St. Vigor's nave in 1869. […] The earlier church founded was probably that of All Saints, which belonged to the largest manor, that held of the honor of Richmond […] From the 16th century to the 18th the population was probably divided about equally between the two parishes, each having c. 50 households in 1563 […] Under Charles II it had been cracked and ruinous, its four-light east window partly stopped with clay. (fn. 156) The tower fell in May 1766, destroying much of the nave. The exposed clunch masonry soon decayed, while the woodwork was plundered. (fn. 157) The parishioners, claiming that they could not afford to rebuild it, obtained an Act in 1775 to demolish the ruins, devoting the proceeds to maintaining St. Vigor's. (fn. 158) Although there was thenceforth only one church rate, separate pairs of churchwardens continued to be chosen for the two ancient parishes until the 1870s. (fn. 159) No trace remains on the site, although some arches from an arcade were re-erected as the 'Temple' in the Manor grounds."