West Stour

No entry found for West Stour in the Domesday survey. The entry for this parish in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 4, North (London, 1972) notes: "Font: comprises hexagonal stone bowl, hollow-chamfered below, on large centre shaft and six small corner shafts, on chamfered hexagonal base; probably of 13th-century origin, recut." Octagonal mounted baptismal font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides and chamfered underbowl, raised on a base made up of central cylindrical shaft and eight slender colonnettes, one at each angle of the basin; the colonnettes rest on an octagonal lower base. The font is located in the southwest corner of the nave. A flat wooden cover, modern and with metal reinforcements, covers the basin.