Mosterton / Mortestorne / Mostestorne

There is an entry for Mosterton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST4505/mosterton/] [accessed 25 September 2023] but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The entry for Mosterton in the VCH ['Mosterton', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 1, West (London, 1952), p. 170. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/dorset/vol1/p170 [accessed 25 September 2023]] notes: "Parish Church of St. Mary, formerly a chapel of South Perrott, stands in the village. The walls are of ashlar and the roofs are tile-covered. It was entirely rebuilt, on a new site, in 1833 [...] Font: plain octagonal bowl with hollow-chamfered lower edge, cylindrical stem, mediæval, base modern." The entry for the present parish church of Mosterton in Historic England [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST4505/mosterton/] notes: "Parish Church. 1833 by Edmund Pearce, built on a new site"; it mentions no font in it. The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/mosterton.htm] illustrates a font that is not in keeping with the 19th century fabric: a plain octagonal basin with vertical sides and pronounced chamfer on the underbowl; thin centre ring moulding; plain cylindrical stem and moulded cylindrical lower base. Modern font cover, wooden. The font appears medieval and shows one large horizontal repair on the underbowl. It must have been originally from another church. There is a piscina or holy-water stoup near the organ that may also be early and from another church [not listed in this Index]