Hindringham / Hindringaha / Hindringaham

There are six entries for Hindringham in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF9836/hindringham/] [accessed 11 December 2013], none of which mentions either church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The church was anciently a rectory, dedicated to St. Martin, [...] and was appropriated to the office of the cellarer, in the priory of Norwich, by John de Grey Bishop, and a vicarage established"; Bishop de Gray [aka Grey] died in 1214 [Roy Martin Haines, ‘Gray, John de (d. 1214)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11541, accessed 11 Dec 2013]], which puts the founding date of the church here between 1086 and 1214. Farrrer (1887 [1885?]) describes the shields on the font: "IV. Quarterly : — 1 and 4, France (modem) ; 2 and 3, England. -- V. A cross surmounted of a crown of thorns between two nails ; in dexter chief, three dice ; in dexter base, whip, scourge, and spear ; on the sinister side, a ladder ; and in sinister base, pincers and reed, with sponge, Shield of the Passion. -- VI. Emblem of the Trinity. " Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997) in much the same terms as the font at Hindolveston: crowned letters on the stem [the same M and T letters here as well]; on the basin sides the symbols of the Evangelists, emblem of the Trinity, shield charged with the Instruments of the Passion, and Crucifixion; additionally on this font, "the arms of England quartering France". Described and illustrated in Knott (2005): "Hindringham's 15th century font is similar to that nearby at Wighton, with a Crucifixion, Instruments of the Passion and a Holy Trinity symbol along with heraldic shields." The octagonal basin has round colonnettes with caps and bases at the angles; the underbowl chamfer is moulded and has eight grotesque human heads on the lower volume; the stem is octagonal and has mouldings and piping at the angles, while the panels themselves have the crowned letters under tracery motifs; moulded lower base, also octagonal. Two-step octagonal plinth, the sides of the upper step decorated with quatrefoil motifs. The wooden cover is octagonal and box-like, with a crenellated top.