Islington nr. King's Lynn / Esingatuna / Ilsingetana / Ilsingetuna / Ilsinghetuna / Isingetuna / Islinghetuna / Tilney-cum-Islington

There are as many as ten entries in the Domesday survey for Islington -in variant spellings-, of which only one mentions a church in it, in the part that had belonged to Archbishop Stigand before the Conquest, but was in the tenancy of Hemerus de Ferrariis [aka Hermer de Ferrers] by 1086 [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF5716/islington/] [accessed 18 November 2013]. Blomefield (1805-1810), however, argues: "This lordship of Hermerus had most probably its site in this town, and therefore is here accounted for, but the principal tenures and lands belonging to it, lay in Tilney, and the church here mentioned, was the church of Tilney, the church of Islington belonging absolutely to Montfort's fee, as appears from the presentations. [...] The Church is dedicated to St. Mary, has a nave, a cross isle and a chancel covered with reed; the tower is four-square, and stands at the south part of the church, and through it is a passage into the church, and there are two bells. [...] It was anciently a rectory [...] appropriated to the priory of Blackburgh". Pevsner & Wilson (1999) report a 15th-century octagonal font, originally from Islington St. Mary's, now in the church at Hillington [Islington St. Mary's is a redundant church now in ruins] [cf. Index entry for Hillibngton, Nrflk.]