Wood Dalling / Dalling / Dallinga / Dallingha

There are three entries for this place in the Domesday survey ["Dalling", "Dallinga" and "Dallingha"], but neither entry reports a church or a cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "in the reign of Henry I.[i.e., 1100-1135] Sir Ralph, son of Turald, of Wood-Dalling, gave to the monks of Binham, the churches of this town and of Ryburgh Parva, with lands here for the soul of Peter Lord Valoins" [lord of the manor in 1086]. "The Church is dedicated to St. Andrew, and was anciently a rectory [...] and the prior of Binham had a portion [...] The patronage of the church was in the priory, but was not appropriated to them, but a vicarage was after settled [...] it consists of a nave, with 2 chapels, a north and south one adjoining to it." Blomefield (ibid.) gives the first recorded vicars: "Ralph, son of Thorald, presented Roger and Pagan, two brothers, to the church in the time of William Turbus Bishop of Norwich. William de Bec was presented by the prior of Binham in the time of John Bishop of Norwich." The Dictionary of National Biography (1883: 8) has "William de Turbe or Turbus (bishop of Norwich), 1175". Those references suggest that a church existed here somewhere around the beginning-to-mid 12th century. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TG0897426977] notes: "Parish church. C13, C14 and C15", but mentions no font in it. The present baptismal font, octagonal and located at the west end of the nave, is Victorian [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]