Ingham nr. Norwich / Hinccham / Nincham

This Ingham appears in three entries in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG3926/ingham/], but neither mentions a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity; it was anciently a rectory, valued at 26 marks in the reign of Edward I. when the rector had a manse, and 30 acres of land [...] It consists of a nave, a north and south isle, all formerly covered with lead, and the tower is beautiful [...] Reginald le Gross occurs rector in the 14th of Edward I" [i.e., 1286], which is the earliest mention of the parish church we found. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "a Norman font" in this church. Tyrrell-Green (1928) writes: "The octagonal form persisted in fonts of the same class in the thirteenth century, with the change that in the Early English style pointed arches take the place of rounded ones in the shallow incised arcading". This font is one of them, but T-G does not mention the Victirian alterations that gave this basin a new base. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble; "bowl probably recut; suppost 19th century". Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997) as consisting of an octagonal Purbeck marble basin raised on a 19th-century base. Noted and illustrated in Knott (2004), who is not greatly impressed by this font: "For such a grand church there is a surprinsingly bog-standard Purbeck font, and although the Victorians had a go at making it grander, perhaps it came from somewhere else originally and Christian [i.e., Ewan Christian (1814-1895): Manxman, eminent Victorian architect and president of RIBA; directed the restoration of Holy Trinity's in the 1870s] installed it here."