Hindolveston / Hilderston / Hidolfeston / Hidolfestuna / Hyndelveston

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "H[ilderston]. Called in the book of Domesday, Hidolfeston, was a lordship of the Bishop of Thetford, belonged to the see in King Edward's reign; and there were [...] and a church belonged to the manor, endowed with 26 acres [...] The Church is dedicated to St. George, was anciently a rectory, but appropriated by John de Grey Bishop of Norwich, to the priory, and a vicarage was settled [...] It contains a nave, a north and south isle, covered with lead, and a chancel, and has a tower with 4 bells; in 1445, John Swift of this town, gave a legacy to the building of the new tower" [cf. infra]. Farrer (1887 [1885?]) describes the arms on the shields of the present font: "On the Font. II. A cross {St. George, Argent, a cross gules.) -- III. Shield of the Passion, Cross, surmounted of the crown of thorns ; in base two whips in saltire. -- IV. Shield of the Crucifixion. -- V. Emblem of the Trinity." Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Octagonal. Crowned letters M and T against the stem, against the bowl the signs of the Evangelists, of the Trinity and of the Passion; also Crucifixion." Pevsner & Wilson ((ibid.) further inform that the old church was abandoned soon after the tower fell into the nave in 1870 [NB: the fall of part of the tower actually took place several years later: "''On Sunday 31 July 1892, the nave of the church of St George, was demolished when the eastern half of the tower fell on it" [source: probably from the interior of the new church; reproduced in www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=12302#.Uk8jgVmhk-I [accessed 4 October 2013]. Noted and illustrated in Knott (2006): "its panels are vandalised and not recut, but clearly show the Crucifixion, Instruments of the Passion and a Holy Trinity symbol."