Hardingham / Flockthorp / Flockthorpe / Flocthorp / Flokethorp / Hardyngham / Tochesthorp / Tokesthorp / Tokethorp

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The town of Hardingham is not mentioned in the book of Domesday, and was then, no doubt, an hamlet or little village included in the township of Flockthorp, whereas that has been depopulated for many centuries, and is now included in Hardingham. F[lockthorp.] Is a village now included in Hardyngham, and contained all that part of the parish lying in Forehoe hundred, it is called Tokethorp in Dom[e]sday, [...] The whole of this village fell into Hardingham in Edward the Third's time [i.e., 1327-1377], and the name of it is quite forgotten." Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1883 as the original font of the Early English period church. Described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999) as a font of the late 13th century: Octagonal, with trefoiled arches with leaf cusps on colonnettes, not an ordinary piece." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2007): "elegant, venerable, broken font" of the 13th century. The basin is badly cracked on the sides; the base, consisting of a broad central shaft and eight outer colonnettes appears modern, perhaps 19th-century, as is probably the octagonal font cover.