Shapwick nr. Wimborne Minster / Scapeuuic

There is an entry for this Shapwick [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST9301/shapwick/] [accessed 2 May 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874) has: "There is a large font, with octagonal bowl. A pair of plain shallow arches are sculptured on each face. It stands on a massive circular stem." Noted in Long (1923) as a good example of "a considerable number of Early English fonts in this county [...] mostly of Purbeck marble, a fact which leads one to suppose that the majority were constructed in or near the Isle of Purbeck, and exported in considerable quantities to other parts of Dorset, and even much further afield. The type consists of an octagonal bowl, with shallow pointed arcading on the sides. The bowl is usually mounted on a thick central, and four or eight smaller detached angle shafts, standing on a low plain base." In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Big, Perp[endicular], hexagonal, of Purbeck marble, with two blank arches each side. Late C12. -- Font cover. Of iron, exuberant, probably c.1870 or so." [NB: error in Newman & Pevsner? unlikely assignation of a 12th century work to the Perpendicular period!]. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble; "only four subsidiary shafts". The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/shapwick.htm] describes and illustrates the font and cover: "The late Norman Purbeck hexagonal marble font, originally in the centre of the church, was moved to its present position under the tower during the restoration", the latter having started in 1880." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST9365701678] reports: "Font, late C12, octagonal bowl, with round-arched panelling, on circular base with corner shafts."