Appleton / Apletuna / Applatuna / Appletuna

There are two entries for this Appleton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TF7027/appleton/] [accessed 28 May 2015], one of which mentions a church and 0.1 hide of church lands in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes, the Domesday survey has two entries for this place, "Applatuna" and "Appletuna", each with a different lord holder; the first, which "was held in King Edward's time by Aba, under Stigand the Archbishop", included at the time "a church then endowed with 12 acres". That church, adds Blomefield (ibid.), "was dedicated to St. Mary; the rectory was appropriated to Westacre priory", but it obviously had fallen into hard times by the time of his visit: "The church is mostly in ruins; it was covered with lead, and had a round tower, and is a single pile; I found horses chained together in the porch, and in the church, both in a filthy condition, and no door to the church." Plunkett [cf. ImagesArea] notes on this church: "It has been a ruin since 1707 when the hall was burnt down and the famous Paston family left the place." [NB: we have no information on the baptismal font of the earlier church here]