Hellesdon / Hailesduna / Haylesdon

There is an entry for Hellesdon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG2010/hellesdon/] [accessed 15 April 2014], and it reports a church in it but no church lands. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Mary [...] The church is a small pile, consisting of a body, or nave, and a chancel, and a north isle that runs the length of the body, all covered with lead; and has an octangular tower, and one bell, with a cap, or cupola of wood, covered with lead." Blomefield (ibid.) further notes: "On the deprivation of Stigand Archbishop of Canterbury, (who held it as a lay fee) the Conqueror granted it to Godwin Halden [...] This Godwin Halden seems to be of Danish extraction, and one thing is remarkable of him, that he held under Earl Guert, brother of King Harold, the lordship of Nettington in Smethdon hundred, in King Edward's time, and at the Conquest, when he was also rewarded with this lordship, those of Oxnead and Bernham in South Erpingham and Fourhow hundreds; a proof that he was a rebel against King Harold, and assisted the Conqueror." The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Octagonal, with quatrefoils, on a shafted stem." [NB: we have no information on the font of the Domesday-time church here].