Colemore / Colemeare / Colemere / Colmer / Cormere

There is an entry for Colemore [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU7030/colemore/] [accessed 6 September 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. White (1878) writes: "The font is the ancient Norman one of Purbeck marble." Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period made of Purbeck marble. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The walls are of flint rubble with sandstone dressings, 2 ft. 6 in. thick, and belong for the most part to the first half of the 12th century, the principal structural changes [...] have taken place being the rebuilding of the chancel in the 19th century [...] The font, near the south door of the nave, is of a late 12th-century type, of Purbeck marble, with a square bowl arcaded on two sides, and having a doublescalloped pattern on the west side and an interlacing pattern on the east. It has its original base and round central shaft, but the four angle shafts are modern." Described and illustrated in a local brochure by the Churches Conservation Trust [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~parishregisters/hampshire/colemore/cochurch.htm] [accessed 21 December 2008]: "To the west of the door stands the 12th century square font, made of Purbeck marble. Two sides of the bowl are arcaded, one is scalloped and the fourth has an interlocking pattern. The font is supported on a central drum with columns at each corner provided in 1845." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "bowl with panels on two faces, a double scalloped pattern on the third and an interlacing pattern on the fourth; the subsidiary shafts are modern" [source given: VCH, 4, 1911].