Tarrant Hinton / Tarent Hinton / Tarente

There is an entry for Tarrant [Hinton] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST9311/tarrant-hinton/] [accessed 20 February 2023]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Noted in the revised ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The Norman font is of Purbeck marble. The square bowl has a shallow arcade of circular arches sculptured upon it, and is supported by a large circular central column, and by smaller columns at the angles." Noted in Long (1923) as a baptismal font of the Early English period: "the bowl is square, the angle shafts are detached." Mee (1939) reports a Norman font in this church. In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Square, C12, of the standard Purbeck type with five flat arches on each side. Five supports." Described and illustrated in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]. The font consists of a square basin the sides of which are decorated with sets of five blind round arches very shallowly carved; the lower rim of the basin is chamfered; damage to the upper basin rim appears consistent with the forceful removal of old cover hardware; base made up of a broad central shaft with four slender colonnettes, all plain, and a plain square lower base; the whole is now raised on a modern plinth which, like the walls of the nave, has knapped flint insets. The cover is typical 17th-century: six ribs-around-a-central-pivot on a flat base. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST9362411154] notes: "C12 square font with arcaded sides on cylindrical shaft with small corner shafts". Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "bowl with five panels on each face" [source given: E.T. Long, "Dorset Church fonts", Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society Proceedings, vol. XLIV, 1923].