Ditchingham / Pirenhou / Pirnho / Pirnhow

There is an entry for Ditchingham in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TM3292/ditchingham/] [accessed 3 March 2014], bit it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. The entry for Ditchingham St. Mary's appears under Pirnhow in Blomefield (1805-1810): "The church is dedicated to St. Mary. In the reign of Edw. I. Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk was patron, as capital lord of Ditchingham". Blomefield (ibid.) esplains: "The town of Pirnho has been demolished time immemorial, the lands belonging to it lie now in Ditchingham, and Pirnhow-Hall is therein." [NB: Pirnhow has an entry [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TM3391/pirnhow/] [accessed 3 March 2014], but there is no mention of a church or cleric in it]. The present font here is described and illustrated in Paley (1844): octagonal basin mounted on a column cluster base, "it is a late specimen of Decorated work, and remains in good preservation, except the heads at the angles". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907). Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999). Illustrated in context in Knott (2005). The basin sides are ornamented with a shield on every other side; the remaining sides have a rosette in a quatrefoil window. The first step of the octagonal plinth has quatrefoil motifs, four to each side; the lower step of the plinth is plain. The Ecclesiologist (vol. 9, 1849: 12) reports a modern version of this font at the Church of St. Mary, in Hamilton, Lanarkshire.