Antingham No. 1 / Antageham / Antigeham / Attingai

There are three entries for Antingham [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TG2532/antingham/] [accessed 20 February 2023], none of which mention cleric or church in it]. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes; "To this lordship [ancient family of De Antingham] belonged the church of St. Mary, in this town, which was a rectory, anciently valued at 5 marks. In Henry the Third's [i.e., 1216-1272] time there were two medieties, but in the reign of Edward I.[i.e., 1272-1307] it appears to be divided into 4 parts or portions. In the 3d year of Henry III. Reginald, abbot of St. Bennet's de Hulmo, conveyed to Roger de Antingham the moiety of the advowson of this church [...] In 1280, Thomas occurs rector." Although neither church nor cleric are mentioned in the Domesday entries for "Antigeham" or "Attingai", a church here, therefore, was active by 1219. Blomefield (ibid.) reports a second church here: "The abbey of St. Bennet of Holme held here in King Edwards reign, and at the survey, a lordship [...] To this lordship belonged the patronage of the church of St. Margaret of Antingham, a rectory [...] In the reign of Edward I. the rector had 10 acres of land, but no manse. In 1291, Thomas occurs rector." There were two active churches in Antingham by ca, 1300. Cox & Harvey (1907) report a fine example of Early English font in Purbeck marble in this church. It is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. Octagonal, of Purbeck marble, with two shallow pointed arches on each side; C13." Knott (2006) writes: "The font is one of those off-the-peg Purbeck marble jobs of the 13th century, which many churches seem to have around here". The octagonal basin is raised on a broad central shaft and eight slendeer colonnettes, and an octagonal lower base-cum-plinth, octagonal and plain, with short kneeling stone projection. The surface of the stone is very eroded and some of the arches are hardly visible at all; the colonnettes of the base appear to be modern replacements and some are cracked or broken. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, and appears modern, perhaps 19th-century. Knott (2006) reports: "Antingham St Mary is the village church. But right beside it in the graveyard is the ruined shell of its erstwhile companion, St Margaret. Both were parish churches until the Reformation, the two Antingham parishes arising from the presence of two different manors. Indeed, they may have both continued as working churches after the Reformation, because there are the remains of brickwork in the ruins of the porch on the south side of St Margaret. But by the start of the 18th century, when both churches were in a parlous state, permission was given to use the stone of St Margaret to repair St Mary. Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble, Polygonal I Type (Hexagonal): no details [source given: The Revd. W.C. Hall] [NB: all other sources describe the font as octagonal]