Thorpe Market / Tarpten / Thorp Market / Thorp Mercate / Torp

The Domesday entry for "Torp" and "Tarpten", transcribed and translated in Blomefield (1805-1810), reports: "a church endowed with 10 acres" in it; the same author writes: "The Church is dedicated to St. Margaret, was a rectory, and being granted to the priory of Coxford, by Jeffrey Lord Say, who married Alice, one of the daughters and coheirs of Sir John de Cheney, the founder, was appropriated to it, and a vicarage settled; the rectory was valued at 18 marks, the vicarage at 15s. and paid Peterpence, 9d.; the vicar had a manse with 3 acres of land, and the rectory 13 acres [...] Walter Atte Strete occurs vicar in the 16th of Edward I." [i.e., 1288]. The present font is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Perp[endicular], octagonal. Originally on eight attached shafts. Against the bowl two ogee arches on each side (cf. Felbrigg)." Illustrated in Knott (2006). The colonnettes of the base have moulded capitals that form the underbowl decoration. [NB: we have no information on the church of the original [pre-Conquest?] church here].