Runham / Romham / Ronham

There are four entries for Runham in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG4510/runham/] [accessed 29 May 2014], neither of which mentions a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church was a rectory, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, [...] and appropriated to the priory of Horsham St. Faith's [...] The church and chancel is covered with reed, and has a foursquare tower with three bells."; the earliest date reference to a church here in Blomefield (ibid.) is: "In the 32d of Henry III [i.e., 1248] a fine was levied between Robert de Brews, and Beatrix his wife, petents, and Berengarius, prior of St. Faith's, tenent, of the advowson of this church". Knott (2011) writes: "The great curiosity here is the font, which has a reading desk set on the west side. I've not seen anything like this anywhere else in East Anglia, and although it is in the 14th Century style it surely cannot be from that period. Cautley took a look when he visited for what would become Norfolk Churches and their Treasures in the 1930s, and he observed that the surface of the stone is "dragged" and I cannot believe this font to be old. However, it is still of interest". The village web site [www.runham.org.uk/church_description.htm] [accessed 2 July 2009] notes: "There is an unusual font in that it has a book rest carved out of the same stone as the octagonal bowl on the western side. This font probably dates from the restoration of 1864 though it might just be a copy of a mediaeval one." [NB: we have no information on the font of the mid-13th century church here]. [NB: we have no information on the original font of this 14th-century church]