Hillington / Helingetuna / Idlinghetuna

There are three entries for this place in the Domesday survey [variant spellings "Helingetuna" and "Idlinghetuna"], but they mention neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) reports a fine related to a moiety of the advowson of the church here in 1228, and notes: "To this church belonged two rectors, each having a mediety; the one was called the patronage of Ralph Cyrezy, the other that of John Blome"; Blomefield (ibid.) footnotes the latter: "Ralph Cyresi occurs rector in 1282, ears from the register of the priory ves, and it's probable that John Blomes was then rector of the other mediety [...] the one was in the patronage of that lordship, which Berner held at the conquest, the other in that which was held by Eudo, son of Spiruwin." Munford's 1858 Domesday survey analysis notes: "Eudo Fits-Spiruwic, or Spiruwin, came in with the Conqueror", which would suggest that the church here could be quite close to the date of the survey itself. The present baptismal font in this church consists of an octagonal basin, the sides carved with four blank shields in cusped hexafoils alternating with four cinquefoiled windows or panels, and a graded chamfered underbowl; raised on an octagonal pedestal stem with a moulding at the centre-ring position, the lowert base splaying in graded mouldings, with a sinle spur on one of the sides. The wooden cover is octagonal, of three flat levels, with a metal Latin cross finial; appears modern. The font is originally from the parish church at Islington, Nrflk. -- cf. Index entry for Islington]