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The Domesday entry for "Nortuna", transcribed and translated in Blomefield (1805-1810) notes; "here was a church endowed with 20 acres of free land"; the later description in Blomefield (ibid.) reads: "The church is a single pile, and thatched, with a round tower and 3 bells [...] The Church is dedicated to St. Margaret, and was a rectory. [...] William de la Corone occurs rector in 1277 [...] In 1350, John de Lound, instituted vicar. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble. The font in this church is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "C13, of Purbeck marble, octagonal, with the usual two flat pointed arches on each side." It appears that the base is also original [are the colonnettes too?], as is the two-step octagonal plinth; the pointed arches of the basin suggest a late 12th-century, Transtional period, or early-13th, Early English [cf. supra]. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and handle; modern. [NB: we have no information on the font from the Norman or pre-Conquest church here].