Hinton St. Mary / Haintone

There is an entry for Hinton [St Mary] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST7816/hinton-st-mary/] [accessed 13 February 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Long (1923) mentions a baptismal font of the Early English period with a plain round bowl in this church. The Inventory of the Historical Monuments (Dorset, vol. 3, 1970) notes: "The West Tower dates from the second half of the 15th century but the rest of the church, consisting of Chancel, Nave, North Vestry and South Porch, was rebuilt in 1846 [...] Font: of Purbeck marble, coarsely tooled; round bowl with tapering sides and lobed twelve-sided moulding underneath, stem cylindrical, base circular, coarsely moulded and much worn; bowl and base probably 13th century, bowl with later mediaeval recutting; stem modern". There are two metal staples in the upper rim, and the north end has considerable damage; the font is lead-lined..