Whitwell nr. Reepham / Witewella / Wytewell

There are two entries for this Whitwell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TG1022/whitwell/] [accessed 12 May 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or priest in it. A chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas must have existed here ca. 1200, as Blomefield (1805-1810) writes about a grant of land "by the chapel of St. Nicholas in Whitwell [...] In the 12th of King John" [i.e., 1211] [cf. infra]; the parish church is described thus: "The Church of Whitwell is dedicated to St. Michael, and was a rectory, but being granted by Sir John de Vaux, son of Sir Oliver, to the priory of Pentney, with one acre of land, was appropriated to it by Roger Bishop of Norwich, on the first of August, 1256, and a vicarage was ordained [...] The church is leaded, has a square tower, with 5 bells, and a clock, and a chancel covered with lead. [...] The church stands in the same cemetery, or churchyard, as that of Reefham; on the south side of the church is a chapel, with the arms of Vaux on the stone-work, and in the church windows are the said arms, with those of Lord Ross. In this town was also a chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas, valued at 7l. 15s. 9d. it belonged to the priory of Pentney, given by the family of de Vaux; at the Dissolution it was granted to Robert Townsend, Esq. and came after to Robert Coke, and to the dean and chapter of Norwich." There is no indication in Bloemfield (ibid.) as to the liturgical function of these two chapels. [NB: we have no information on the font of this redundant church].