Thetford No. 9 / Deodford / Tedford / Tefford / Tetford / Theford / Sitomagus

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes; "St. John's. Was one of the four churches appendant to the mother church, in the Conqueror's time, as we learn from Domesday, and was given, with that, to Bishop Arfast [i. e., a contemporary of the Conqueror] [...] given in King Richard the Second's time [i.e., 1377-1399] to John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster, who gave it to the prior and convent of the Augustine friars in Thetford, which he had founded, and soon after it became a chapel only, the parish being joined to that of the Holy Trinity; afterwards, it was repaired by the friars, and made a house for lepers, and continued such till the Dissolution [i.e., 1536-1541], when it was demolished". [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here].