Guist Thorpe / Geisthorp / Geysthorp

In his entry for "Geist" [i.e., Guist] Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church of Geist is dedicated to St. Andrew, and there was a chapel belonging to it called Geysthorp chapel dedicated to All-Saints, a hamlet, as I take it, belonging to Geist; it was anciently a rectory, after that appropriated to the abbey of Waltham in Essex [...] James de Ferentino, dean of Holt deanery, and proctor of the archdeacon of Norwich, and the abbot and convent of Waltham, in the vacancy of the see of Norwich, came to this agreement, that the abbot and convent should yearly grant to the vicar of Geist and Geysthorp 2 marks, viz. one at Easter, and the other at St. Michael, and to have all the altarage of the said church and chapel, but was to bear and pay all ecclesiastical dues to the Bishop and archdeacon; and to keep a resident chaplain for the chapel of Geysthorp, dated on the 9th of the calends of November 1238; after this the tithes of the third part of the church of Norton, to the value of 5 marks per ann. were granted to this vicar, instead of the aforesaid 2 marks." A resident chaplain for All Saints in 1238 suggests that this chapel had parochial functions and therefore a baptismal font in it. The GENUKI [www.genuki.org.uk] entry for "All Saints Chapel, Guist Thorpe (Geysthorp)" notes: The church did not have a graveyard [...] It was founded before 1550. It closed before 1900." [NB: we have no information on the font of theis chapel].