Bagthorpe / Bachesthorp / Bachethorp / Baggethorpe / Baggthorp / Baghestorp

There is an entry for Bagthorpe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TF7932/bagthorpe/] [accessed 14 October 2015]; it mentions "1.5 church" in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The family of de Frevil was very early enfeoffed of this manor, by the Earl Warren. Robert de Frevile, by his deed sans date, gave to the priory a moiety of his manor of Baghestorp, [...] the said Ralph [de Frivill] gave the other moiety of this manor, with the church of of Baggthorp, to the said priory [...] The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Mary, and is a very little, mean edifice, without any monument." Blomefield (ibid.) names "Robert de Suthwalsham" as first recorded rector here, in 1305. The present font is reported in Kelly's Directory of 1883 as "very large and ancient". It is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Norman. Square, with angle colonnettes. Otherwise plain except for one side with interlaced knot-motif circles." The basin is raised on a modern square base. Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2032045] [accessed 2 February 2013] notes: "only the early Norman font is the only original feature that has survived. During the first years of the church's redundance it was on exhibit in the Church Museum housed in St Peter Hungate church in Norwich. It was returned to the church in 1979 where it now rests on a new concrete base."