Donhead St. Andrew / Upper Donhead

Murray (1859) reports an "old Anglo-Norman font" in Donhead St. Andrew's church. The Gentleman's Magazine (issue of Oct. 1861, p. 416) reports the visit on 22 August of the same year by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society to both Donheads, St. Mary and St. Andrew, but it mentions only "the Anglo-Norman font" in St. Andrew's church. The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine (vol. VII, 1862) publishes the report of the 8th General Meeting of this Society, held at Shaftesbury between the 21st and 23rd of August 1861, in which it is recorded that same visit, but the report remarks on "the ancient font and the capitals and pillars" found in their inspection of "the Church of Donhead St. Mary's". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. [NB: Cox & Harvey use the form "Upper Donhead"]. Noted in Buck (1951) as a group of circular fonts with moulded edges dating from the late 12th or early 13th century in the county of Wiltshire, at Barford St. Martin, Bower Chalke, Burcombe, Chilmark, Codford St. Mary [...], Monkton Deverill, Donhead St. Andrew, Teffont Magna. There is no font recorded for this church by Pevsner & Cherry (1975). The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 13, 1987) notes: "The church of St. Andrew, so called before 1240 [...] Walling in the northeast corner of the nave may survive from a church which stood in the 11th century or earlier 12th. [...] Registrations of baptisms [...] are extant from 1646." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish. [NB: it is not clear to us what has happenened to the font noted above; it has either been re-cut or re-tooled since Buck's report ca. 1951, or it has been replaced by a later font. The present font is a sharply cut round basin with two mouldings at the lower side and one bore on the underbowl, all recent work, raised on a plain cylindrical stem, a circular lower base and an octagonal plinth, again, all modern work. Is this the old basin re-cut?]