Carisbrooke No. 2 / Carbrough / Carebroc / Caresbroch / Caresbroke / Carrebroc / Carisbrook / Casebroke / Kaerbroc / Karesbrook / Karesbrouk / Karisbroch / Karsbroke / Wihtgarasburh

The Domesday survey reports a church dedicated to St Nicholas in Carisbrooke [https://opendomesday.org/name/carisbrooke-st-nicholas-church-of/] [accessed 19 February 2020]. The entry for the parish of Carisbrooke in the Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 5, 1912) notes: "The chapel of St. Nicholas in the castle of Carisbrooke is mentioned in the Domesday Survey [...] It was given to the abbey of Quarr by Baldwin de Redvers (1107–55) [...] It afterwards became and is still vested in the governors of the castle, but the living has for many years been a sinecure, and the chapel was in ruins. [...] Henry Bishop of Winchester (1305–16) consecrated a chapel under the castle of Carisbrooke dedicated to the Holy Cross and to the Apostles Peter and Paul and to St. Swithun for a burying-place for the monks in the Island; if any other should desire to be buried there, the priest of the mother church of Carisbrooke might permit it if he thought fit." It is located near the main gate of Carisbrooke Castle, and was restored and re-consecrated in the early 20th century. The entry for the castle in Historic England [Listing NGR: SZ4855087719] mentions the chapel: "Substantial remains of castle of C11/C12 foundation with additions in the C14, C15 and C16. Pre-Domesday earthworks round the inner enceinte and at their foot to the east and west, remains of a late Roman masonry wall, near the North-Eastern corner, a shallow semi-circular bastion and in the middle of the east side traces of an inturned gate. Ruins considerably restored in the C19. Chapel rebuilt 1904-5 by Percy Goddard Stone, retaining base of C13 buttresses." [NB: we have no information of the font of the medieval church here]