Eysey / Aisi / Eisey / Esi

There is an entry for Eysey [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU1194/eysey/] [accessed 7 June 2018], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The entry for this 'historic parish' in the Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 18, 2011) notes: "The church standing until 1844 was apparently built in the 14th century. It was two-celled and of stone rubble with a stone-slated roof. The nave was of two bays and had a west window with reticulated tracery and a single-light window in the east part of its north wall; a louvered opening in the west gable may have had a bell hanging behind it. The chancel was of one bay and had a square-headed north window. A gabled north porch, with weatherboarding in the gable, was added to the nave c. 1500. [...] The earliest date at which the church is known to have been dedicated to St Mary is 1763. The church built in 1844 consisted of a five-bayed nave with west bellcot and gabled south porch and of an apsidal ended chancel. It was built of dressed stone, had a stone-slated roof, and was in a simple neo-Norman style. [...] A Scheme of 1952 authorised the demolition of Eisey church, which took place in 1953. [...] The site was planted with trees in 1974, although gravestones in the former churchyard remained in 1994." The VCH entry mentions a nearby chapel at Walter Eaton dedicated to St. Lawrence in 1404, but it not clear whether it had sacramental privileges or not. The entry for this church in the Wiltshire Community History [https://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getchurch.php?id=1278] [accessed 7 June 2018] notes: "Church of St. Mary, Eysey. The church of St. Mary was a small building of stone in the Perpendicular style. It had a chancel, nave, south porch and a small turret on the western gable with just one bell. This would seem to indicate that there were never many people or much wealth in the parish. There were seats for 100 people. This church had been built in 1844 replacing a medieval one, which was doubtless in a ruinous state and had been demolished. The later church would seem to have been a copy of the early one with the addition of a bell turret. A church here was in use in 1195 and would have been here at an earlier date though unrecorded. The first recorded incumbent was one Nicholas in 1236. The registers, which date from 1571, end in 1947 and so it would seem that the church was redundant from that year although burials of local people would still have taken place. The church, which was on a small hill, which gave it a considerable eminence in this flat Thames valley landscape, was finally demolished in 1953. The graveyard was surrounded by trees, which have now grown into a very dense thicket. This hill is covered by a series of banks and ditches, indicating a considerable settlement site above the low-lying ground. The parish registers from 1574 (christenings and Burials) and 1575 (marriages) are held in the Wiltshire & Swindon Record Office at Chippenham."