Beer Hackett / Beer Hacket / Bere Hacket

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]