Morton-on-the-Hill / Helmingham and Morton / Morton St. Margaret

In his entry for "Helmingham and Morton" Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "Morton, now called Morton on the Hill, was anciently an hamlet belonging to Helmingham, and included therein, and on that account is not mentioned in Domesday Book. The principal lordship in this town was then in William de Beaufoe Bishop of Thetford, possessed by Ailmar Bishop of Elmham, in King Edward's time, and was in that see in the Saxon age [...] Here were at the survey two churches, one belonging to this town [i.e., Helmingham] and the other most likely to Morton, which seems to have been dilapidated some centuries past." [NB: it appears, however, that the surviving church is that of St. Margaret in Morton [aka Morton-on-the-Hill]. Pevsner & Wilson (1999) note: "Font. C. 1850. Octagonal, cusped blank arcade to stem, shields round bowl." In his entry for St Margaret, Morton-on-the-Hill, Knott (2006) writes: "It was on Easter Sunday 1959 that the tower collapsed […] The tower fell into the nave; the furnishings that could be salvaged were removed, and for a long time after that the ruin was just left […] It was not until the late 1970s that Lady Prince-Smith, resident at the hall, took St Margaret in hand with the help of the redoubtable Norfolk Churches Trust. A glass screen was built across the nave, and the part to the east reroofed. The font was moved inside and reconstructed". [NB: we have no information on the font(s) of the early church here] [cf. Index entry for Helmingham (Nrflk.) for the second church noted in the Domesday survey]