Runhall / Runhal / Runhala

There are two entries for Runhall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TG0506/runhall/] [accessed 18 October 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church is dedicated to All the Saints; it hath a round steeple, and three bells [...] The nave is leaded, the south porch tiled, the chancel is quite ruinated [...] This church was a rectory at first, belonging to the manor, and so continued till 1198, [...] After the Dissolution, the impropriation and advowson of the vicarage were purchased of the Crown by the lord of the manor, with all the revenues of West-Acre priory in this town, and have ever since gone together, and still remain joined at this day." Blomefield (ibid.) names "Michael de Westacre" s its first recorded vicar, in 1301, and cites the Domesday entry for 'Runhala', which mentions neither church nor priest in it. The font in this church is described in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Late C14, octagonal, with quatrefoils to bowl and trefoiled panels to the stem." Noted and illustrated in Knott (2006) as an octagonal baptismal font of the 14th century; the vertical sides of the basin are decorated with tracery, including large quatrefoils; the underbowl chamfer is moulded and there are two mouldings on the octagonal stem, the sides of which are decorated with tracery as well; the octagonal lower base is moulded. The octagonal plinth is modern, as is probably the flat octagonal wooden cover. [NB: we have no information on the font from the pre-1198 church here].