Trimingham / Trymmyngham

The entry for this place in Blomefield (1805-1810) reads: "I find no mention made of this town in Domesday Book, being included (as I take it) and accounted for under the Earl Warren's great lordship of Gimingham, to which it joins, and paid suit and service to it. William Earl Warren was lord of it at the survey [...] The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. John Baptist. In the reign of Edward I. the rector was found to have a competent edifice, with half an acre of land, and was valued at 9 marks, paid Peterpence 12d. and the Earl Warren was patron. [...] William de Rollesby occurs rector in the 22d of Edward I. [i.e., 1294] [...] In this church was (as pretended) a famous relick in times of popery, the head of St. John the Baptist, to which pilgrimages, great worship, and offerings were made. In one of the will books of Norwich is that of Alice Cook, of Horstead, wife of Robert Cook of Crostwheytin, in 1478:—"It. I wyll have a man to go a pilgrimage to St. John hys hede of Trymmyngham." The present font is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1997): "Octagonal, of the mid C14. Stem with eight attached shafts. Bowl with mouchette tracery in the panels." Illustrated in Knott (2006). Somewhat like the font at Thorpe Market, and other related in Norfolk, the moulded capitals of the colonnettes of the base serve as decoration for the underbowl; the bases are also moulded. Stands on a two-step octagonal plinth. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of this curch].