Horringer / Horingeserda / Horninggesherthe / Horningsherth / Horningsheath / Horrunges

There are two entries for Horringer [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL8262/horringer/] [accessed 2 January 2020], one of which reports "1 church. 0.05 church lands" in it. Parker (1855) notes a font of the Perpendicular period in this church. Listed in Cautley (1982) as a baptismal font of the 15th century decorated with heraldic emblems. Knott (2008) illustrates this font and notes: "The medieval font has modern heraldic shields painted on it; repainted, but probably to the original configuration. They show shields of local pre-Reformation landed families". The village web site [http://www.horringer.suffolk.gov.uk/info/history.html] [accessed 1 June 2009] includes a set of historical notes by Eric Lucas in which the font is mentioned with a much earlier date: "The font is 13th century with painted shields of the Bury St Edmunds Abbey, and the Brooke, Gipps, Jermyn and Lucas families". The wooden cover consists of an octagnal base with foot-heigh sides decorated with angels and floral motifs, on which platform rises a rounded octagonal dome with plain sides; this cover is raised via a pulley; there is flat and simple round wooden cover as well.