Southburgh / Berch / Berk by Hingham / Berk Magna / South Bergh / South Berk / South Burgh / Southbergh / Barrow

There are two entries for [South] Burgh [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG0004/south-burgh/] [accessed 27 March 2014], neither of which reports a church or cleric in them. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "In the 9th of King John [i.e., 1208], Thomas de Benefeld was lord of this manor, held of the Earl Warren, and conveyed to Walter de Bergh the advowson of the church of St. Andrew of South-Berk", which is the earliest reference to this church we have found. Blomefield's (ibid.) adds: "The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Andrew [...] John occurs rector in the 14th of Edward I". The present font is illustrated in the context of the west end of tha nave in Knott (2006): a polygonal font, probably the 19th-century replacement introduced in the re-building of this medieval church in the 1870s/1880s [NB: we have no information on the original font of the medieval church]