Knowle St. Giles / Chenolle / Cricket Malherbie / Cruchet

There is an entry for Knowle [St Giles] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST3411/knowle-st-giles/] [accessed 27 February 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The survey has also an entry for Cricket [Malherbie] [variant spelling], then in the Hundred of Abdick; like Knowle's, it has no mention of cleric or church in it. The entry for the parish of Knowle St Giles in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 4, 1978) notes: "The chapel of Knowle is first mentioned c. 1186–8 when Alan de Furneaux granted it to Wells cathedral as part of the endowment of Cudworth prebend, upon which it was subsequently dependent. [...] There is no earlier evidence to show that it was annexed to Cudworth before that date [...] The living was united with the benefice of Cricket Malherbie in 1961" [NB: since the publication date of the VCH entry is 1978, it does not mention the later redundancy of the St Giles' church and its conversion into a private dwelling]. The entry for the Church of St. Mary Magdalen in Historic England [IoE Number: 262178 / Listing NGR: ST3612911540] reports "a richly decorated octagonal font, which has a fine timber openork cover", from the 1850s re-building of the medieval church. [NB: the former Church of St. Giles, on Pinkham Hill, was deconsecrated, and was converted into a private dwelling in 1986].