Algars Thorp / Algars Thorpe / Algarthorp / Algeresthorp / Algerysthorp

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "A[lgar's-Thorp] Is a hamlet to Great-Melton; it had a chapel, formerly parochial dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, but now long since demolished; it stood in a close called Maudlin close; Norwich Domesday says, that then the rectors of Melton St. Mary and All-Saints took all the profits belonging to the chapel, for which they were obliged at their charge to find a chaplain to serve in it; it had baptism, burial, and all signs of a mother church, and seven parishioners and their families; it is still called Thorp hamlet. In 1476, it was perpetually united to Melton All-Saints, though the chapel continued in use till the Dissolution. in the Conqueror's survey [i.e., Domesday, 1086] it is not named, being then part of Melton, which was given soon after to one Algar, from whom it took is name." [NB: we have no information on the font of the parochial chapel here]