Tivetshall St. Margaret / Tifteshale / Tisteshale / Titshall / Tittleshall-cum-Godwick / Tiveteshala / Totessala / Totsall

There are four entries for Tivetshall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/tivetshall-st-margaret-and-st-mary/] [accessed 12 February 2014], with two churches reported in them. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "T[itshall] Is variously written in different ages, first, Totessala, or Tiveteshall, after Tifteshale, now Titshall [...] In the Confessor's time [i.e., Edward the Confessor (1003 or 1005-1066)] there were two churches [...] Here are two Churches, about a mile distant from each other; the mother church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, the other is a parochial chapel, whose patroness is St. Margaret, both of ancient foundation, even before the Conqueror. It was always a single institution, appendant to the manor, as it still remains, though the parishes are separate [...] The parochial chapel of St. Margaret acknowledges no visitatorial power but that of the Bishop only, for it pays the archdeacon no procurations; but as much again as the mother church does to the Bishop for synodals. The nave and south porch are leaded, the chancel thatched; the tower is square, and hath five bells in it". The font in St. Margaret's is illustrated in Knott (2006). The octagonal font is almost totally plain, but for worn mouldings on the underbowl and lower base; raised on a plinth. The wooden cover is octagonal, plain and flat; appears modern.