Sacombe / Savecampe / Savecome / Sawcompe / Sawecampe / Seuechampe / Sevechampe / Sevechaumpre / Stuochampa / Stuochampe / Sueuecampe / Sueuechamp / Suevecampe

There are five entries for Sacombe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3319/sacombe/] [accessed 17 October 2016], one of which, in the lordship and tenancy-in-chief of Peter of Valognes mentions a cleric among the householders, but not a church in it, although there probably was one there. The Victoria County History (Hertford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "In 1086 there was a clerk [sic] among the tenants of the manor, […] so that there was probably then a church there […] The church is now generally known as the church of St. Catherine, but the earlier invocation seems to have been St. Mary […] The original plan of the 14th-century church was the same as that of the present building, and the chancel and nave are of that date. The tower was rebuilt in 1855–6, and the north vestry was added at the same time, when the whole church was restored, faced with flint and re-roofed. A great part of the stonework of this church was brought from the demolished church of Thundridge"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. The present font in this church, octagonal all over and almost totally plain, is modern, as is its pyramidal wooden cover.