Pattesley / Patesleia / Patesley

There is an entry for Pattesley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF8924/pattesley/] [accessed 11 February 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church was dedicated to St. John Baptist, and was a rectory [...] 1304, John de Fakenham, rector, presented by John de Patesle [...] and no church was standing (as I find) in 1571." Thus, 1304 is the earliest reference to a church here, a church that had already been abandoned (?) by 1571. White's Directory of 1845 notes: "Its church was dilapidated many years ago, though some fragments of its walls may still be seen, at the east end of the farm-house. Though rated to the poor and church of Oxwick, its sinecure rectory, valued in the King's Book at £8. 18s. 9d., is consolidated with the vicarage of Mattishall". Kelly's Directory of 1883 writes: "The church has long disappeared; fragments of its walls may be seen at the west end of the farm-house in the occupation of Mr. Richard Smith". Knott (2006) writes: "Pattesley once had a church of its own, St John the Baptist, which had fallen into disuse like so many of the Fakenham area churches by about 1600; Pevsner recalls that it was described as whollye ruinated and decaied. By 1700 it had been converted into a house, and gradually elaborated and replaced. I only found it because I had recently been reading the entry for this house in Pevsner, and as we were driving from Oxwick to Whissonsett I noticed the name on the map. Pevsner says that the only surviving feature is the west door, now set inside the wall of the house."