Wiggenhall St. Peter No. 2 / Wigenhale / Wigrehale

There are two entries for Wiggenhall [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/wiggenhall-st-germans-st-mary-magdalen-st-mary-th/] [accessed 9 December 2013]; the largest part had Ralph Baynar as tenent-in-chief at the time, the smaller one was in the lordship of Hermer de Ferrers [aka Hemerus de Ferrariis, etc.]; neither entry mentions a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) appears to have missed the Domesday entry for the larger part: "The whole that the survey mentions of them is this; that Hermeru [...] de Ferrarijs had invaded or ejected a freeman out of half a carucate of land that he held in Wigrehale in King Edward's time valued at 3s. per ann. and of him he had not the protection, was not lord of the fee; (fn. 2) and which of the Wigenhales this was does not appear. The reason of this must be that the Wigenhales being parts or members of several adjoining lordships and villages, are accounted for and valued under them, (as is frequently found in the survey) or that the greatest part of the Wigenhales were at that time again overflowed, a standing pool or lake, and rendered quite unprofitable and neglected by their old lords or owners." Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church of St. Peter's has a nave, or body, covered with tiles, a south isle covered with lead, a chancel with reed, and a square tower with one bell. It consisted anciently of two rectories, or medieties [...] In the reign of King John, Jeffery Fitzpiers Earl of Essex, who held large possessions of the honour of Clare, gave, on his foundation of Shouldham priory, all his lands here, with a moiety of the advowson of this church, which was appropriated to it [...] and in the 12th of Henry III. it appears by a fine, that a moiety of the advowson of this church was held by Thomas de Ingaldesthorp, and Robert de Scales [...] Ralph occurs rector of a moiety in Bishop Eborard's time, about 1130. And Robert, rector, 1250, of a mediety." The original St. Peter's, therefore, would have been built between 1086 and 1130. Bond (1908) mentions a "Wiggenhall St Peter, Norfolk" with an odd drainage system for a stoup. The church is in ruins but dates probably from the 15th century.