Hempton nr. Fakenham / Hamatuna

Blomefield (1805-1810) notes from among the holdings of this village at Domesday: "here was also a church endowed with one acre [...] A Church, dedicated to St. Andrew, was standing in the 12th of Henry VII. [i.e., 1497] and was a rectory appropriated to the priory, and granted with the manor; it was valued at 5 marks, and paid Peter-pence 5d. ob." [NB: the 'priory' referred to above was Hempton Priory, "first an hospital, and afterwards a priory, founded by Roger de St. Martin, in the reign of King Henry I. for black canons of the order of St. Austin, and dedicated to St. Stephen", according to Blomefield (ibid.). The priory appears to have ceased at the Dissolution, granted "by King Henry VIII. to Sir William Farmer, and the Lady Catherine his wife, and Thomas Farmer, his nephew". White's Directory of 1883 reported "no vestiges of the priory now remain".] White's Directory of 1845 notes: "The [church] (St. Andrew,) [...] was taken down several centuries ago, and the curacy annexed to Fakenham." [NB: we have no information on the font from the medieval church here].