Barwythe / Barworth / Breuuorde / Bereworde

There is an entry for Barwythe [variant spellin] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL0214/barwythe/] [accessed 20 September 2016]; it mentions a priest in it but not a church, though there must have been one there. The entry for Studham (Beds.) in the VCH (Hertfordshire, vol. 2, 1098) notes: "There was probably a church at Barworth before the Conquest, as a priest is mentioned in Domesday, (fn. 149) and Adelitha and Oswulf, after they granted Studham to the monastery of St. Albans, asked Abbot Leofstan to give them wood for building a church in Studham", which appears to indicate there was a church at Barwythe before one was built in Studham; the same entry in the VCH notes that "in 1236 the prior of Dunstable granted William a chantry in his chapel at Barworth". Whether or not this chapel was the original church in the manor of Barwythe [aka Barworth] and a font excisted there appears unclear from the sources consulted; a recent [2010] description of Barwythe Hall notes: "It is quite possible that the huilding stands near the site of the medieval Manor of Barworth and its chapel." [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/Studham/BarwytheHallStudham.aspx] [accessed 20 September 2016]].