Spridlington No. 2 / Sperlinctone / Spredelintone / Spridelington

There are two entries for Spridlington [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0084/spridlington/] [accessed 7 January 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Taxatio of 1291-1292 list of benefices in Lincolnshire [www.dhi.ac.uk/taxatio/search?form=county&county=LIN] includes both St Albinus [ref.: LI.SW.AS.17 @ £ 10. 0s. 0d. 15m.] and St Hilary [ref.: LI.SW.AS.18 @ £ 10. 0s. 0d. 15m.] The original deed of merger of the two parishes of Spridlington is cited in the Reports and Papers of the Architectural and Archaeological ..., Volume 16, p. 8fn, after A.R. Maddison: "The following deed of union from Bishop Philip of Repingdon's Register, for which am indebted to the Rev. A.R. Maddison, proves tho existence of a long forgotten dedicated to St. Albinus at Spridlington, united to the existing church of St. Hilary in 1417 :-- "In unione vicariae ecclesiae Sancti Albini de Spridlington facta ad ecclesiam parochialem Sancti Hilarii de eadem per proefatum domlnum Philippum Episcopum Lincoln. Anno. dom. millesimo CCCCo XVIIo [...]" Pounds (2000) mentions Spridlington as an example of a parochial merger of the kind that involved the suppression of one of the two churches in the village: "In 1416/17 Spridlington St Albinus was merged with Spridlington St Hilary. The priory of Bullington, to which St Albinus was appropriated, was relieved of its obligations, and the church itself must soon have become ruinous." The entry for the disappeared church in LINCS To The Past [www.lincstothepast.com/Former-Medieval-Church-of-St-Albinus--Spridlington/231784.record?pt=S] [accessed 7 January 2018] reports: "Two medieval churches are documented in Spridlington, with dedications to St Hilary and St Albinus, presumably with one belonging to each of the two distinct and contiguous medieval settlements. St Albinus was associated with the southern manor and St Hilary with the northern one [...]. The parishes were united in 1417 and licence was given to demolish the ruinous bell-tower, nave and chancel of St Albinus. It reportedly stood no more than one fortieth of a mile (c.40m) from the Church of St Hilary and presumably, from the manorial links, to the south." The entry for the Gilbertine Priory of St. Mary, Bullington, in the Victoria County History (Lincoln, vol. 2, 1906) notes that Philip de Kyme, son of Simon de Kyme, the founder of the priory between 1148 and 1154 gave "for the farmery of the nuns the church of St. Albinus at Spridlington".