Shillingstone / Shillingston

Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font is Early-English, with a bowl of Purbeck marble, which stands upon a larger central and four smaller columns at the angles, and is ornamented with plain round-headed incised arches." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. In Long (1923) as a font of the Norman period with a base consisting of "a central and four engaged shafts". Mee (1939) writes: "The font, its bowl decorated with arches, is probably 13th century." In Betjeman (1958) dated 12th-century. In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Square, Norman, of Purbeck marble, with the usual shallow blank arches." In The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/shillingstone.htm] dated to the Norman period.