Burgh St. Margaret / Burc / Burgh / Fleggburgh

There are six entries for this Burgh [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG4414/burgh-st-margaret/] [accessed 23 May 2014], but not a single church or cleric is reported in them. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "In this town were two churches, St. Margaret's and St. Mary's. That of St. Margaret was a rectory anciently"; and the first-recorded rector of it: "In 1319, Robert de Fileby was presented, by the the Lady Joan de Clavering." Cautley (1949) notes that there was a font "quoted by the Revd. H. S. Squirell as being in the garden of Bessingham Manor, and said to have come from Burgh St. Margaret (Norfolk Archaeology Vol. 25, page 94)". Nichols (1994) reports that the Seven-sacrament baptismal font originally from this parish was "removed during the incumbency of C.J. Lucas and presented to Daniel Spurrell, who placed the font in the garden of Bessingham Manor. A later offer to return the font was declined [...] It thus seems likely that the sculpture had already been substantially damaged before its removal. My request to see the font was denied." [NB: Daniel Spurrell (1817-1952]. Nichols (ibid.) notes that the font was reproduced in Fryer (1934: pl. 1-B). [NB: the other baptismal font now [November 2004] in use in this church is a late one, dated in Pevsner & Wilson to 1876, probably from the rebuilding by Green, consisting of an octagonal raised on a pedestal, all decorated with motifs imitating those of the Perpendicular period. [NB: the ruins of another church, St. Maty, are nearby, but there is no font in them -- the oldest parts of this church date to the 12th century]. The modern font "in the style of the 15th century" is illustrated in Knott (2006).