Wallington-cum-Thorpland / Wallinghetuna

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "W[allington], Called in Domesday Book, Wallinghetuna [...] Hermeras seized on it, being in the Confessor's time the possessions of Turstan, a freeman, who had an hundred acres of land, and 15 acres of meadow, valued at 12s. and was only under protection; here was a church with 26 acres, valued at 16d. [...] The Church of Wallington was dedicated to St. Margaret, and is now in ruins, nothing being standing but the tower, which is owing to its being profaned by Judge Gawdy; that it was standing in 1509, appears from the will of John Hale of Wallington, who bequeaths his body to be buried in the churchyard of St. Margaret." The 'profanation' by Judge Gawdy is explained in Blomefield (ibid.) in a passage of convoluted relationships: "The judge being shortly after made Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, (at a dear rate, as was reported,) was suddenly stricken with an apoplexy, and died without issue male, ere he had continued in his place one whole Michaelmas term, and having made his appropriate parish church a hay-house, or a dog-kennel, his dead corps being brought from London to Wallington, could for many days find no place of burial, but growing very offensive, he was at last conveyed to the church of Rungton, and buried there without any ceremony, and lyeth yet uncovered (if the visitors have not reformed it,) with so small a matter as a few paving stones. And indeed no stone or memorial was there ever for him, and if it was not for this account it would not have been known, that he was there buried." White's Directory of 1845 refers to the "hay-house and dog-kennel" profanation and reports "only part of it now remaining is the tower, surmounted by a small spire." [NB: we have no information on the font from that church]