Hertford No. 4 / Hartfelde / Hertforde / Herutford

There are five entries for Hertford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3212/hertford/] [accessed 9 November 2016]; one of the entries mentions a church in it; another mentions two churches in it. The Victoria County History {Hertford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "Ralph de Limesy founded the priory of Hertford and endowed it with the church which he had built there. [...] It seems probable that this was the church of St. John, which was situated on the priory estate to the north of Christ's Hospital. [...] The church of St. John belonged to the monks at the beginning of the 13th century, when a vicarage was endowed. [...] ST. JOHN'S was built before the beginning of the 13th century, [...] and seems to have been pulled down before 1624, when the churchyard formed the mill close of Lyckermill. [...] It is said to have been rebuilt by Thomas Willis, the patron, in 1629, [...] and to have been demolished about fifty years later, after the parish was united to All Saints.[...] The church stood at the east end of the town, to the north of the present buildings of Christ's Hospital, upon the site now occupied (1912) by the timber yard of Messrs. Ewen & Tomlinson. The foundations (which have since been covered in) were excavated during the course of building operations in 1893, and reveal the ground plans both of the original church and of the smaller church erected upon its site in the 17th century. The former was a large cruciform building, having an aisleless nave measuring internally about 87 ft. by 29 ft., north and south transepts, each 30 ft. 4 in. by 20 ft., and a chancel 24 ft. in width, the eastern foundations of which cannot now be traced. At the angle formed by the west wall of the south transept with the south wall of the nave are signs of the existence of a stairturret. The thickness of the walls, about 4 ft., indicate that the remains are at least as early as the 12th century. Several tiles of the 13th and 14th centuries were found on the site. One of these, of the later date, has a vigorously drawn hart upon it."