Burlingham St. Andrew / B'lingeham / Birlingeham / North Birlingham / North Burligham

There are two Domesday entires for "B'lingeham" noted in Blomefield (1805-1810), one with 40 acres of free land held by a Helias [="Helias. de lx. ac. terre libe. et xl. qu. p'tinent. cuida. Ecclie"] after the Conquest; the other was a church with 30 acres [="i. Ecclia. xxx. ac."] held by "15 freemen, under the commendation only of Bishop Almar". Both churches and their earliest recorded rectors are noted in Blomefield (ibid.): "The Church of St. Andrew, in North Birlingham, was a rectory [...] Richard de Runhale was rector in 10th of Richard I.[i.e., 1199] as appears from a fine then levied [...] In this town of North Birlingham was also the church of St. Peter, a rectory [...] John de Essex occurs rector, in 1287." The present baptismal font at St. Andrew's is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Font. Octagonal, with elementary C14 decoration and stem of clustered shafts."