Beer Hackett / Beer Hacket / Bere Hacket

No entry found for Beer Hackett in the Domesday survey. Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font has a plain octagonal bowl, on a square pier, and on the pier crosses in circles." Noted in Long (1923) as a "good specimen" of the octagonal font of the Perpendicular period, "with carving under the bowl." In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], plain, but against the underside nice leaf patterns." Described in the Beer Hackett-Thornhackett Parish Council web site as one of the few features of the original 15th-century church at Beer Hackett. [source: www.thornhackett-pc.gov.uk/hackett.htm]. The entry for this church in Historic England [https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1119187?section=official-list-entry] [accessed 19 February 2026] notes: "There has been a church at Beer Hackett since medieval times. The nave and tower of the Church of St Michael were built in the C15, and the south porch in the C16, but much of the present building dates from the second half of the C19 [...] it retains most of its historic fittings including a C15 font". Baptismal records here strat in 1549 [https://www.opcdorset.org/BeerHackettFiles/BeerHackettBaps.htm] [accessed 19 February 2026]