Piddletrenthide / Collier's Piddle / Piddle Trenthide / Pidrie / Puddletrenthide

There is an entry for Piddletrenthide [variand spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SY7099/piddletrenthide/] [accessed 10 August 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874) notes: "The simple early font, which stands at the western end of the nave, is a small and shallow hexagonal basin of Portland stone, with a plain circular stem, on a hexagonal base.." Described in Long (1923): "roughly worked octagonal bowl, and a single circular shaft, which now stands on a Perpendicular base of Ham Hill stone." The entry for this parish in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset (vol. 3, Central (London, 1970): pp. 212-222) notes: "The South Doorway and one respond of the Chancel Arch are of the 12th century. The Chancel, the North Vestry and the South Porch are probably of the first half of the 15th century. The West Tower is dated 1487; the Nave and the North and South Aisles are of c. 1500. The church was restored in 1852. [...] late 15th or early 16th century. Font: with straight-sided octagonal stone bowl, hollow-chamfered underneath, cylindrical stem and moulded octagonal base, perhaps 15th century, but recut; oak cover with central column surrounded by six scroll-shaped braces supporting vase finial, 17th century." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST7020800730] notes: "Parish Church. South door and south chancel arch C12, chancel, south porch and north vestry early C14, west tower dated 1487, north and south aisles and nave, c 1500. General restorations of 1852 and 1880. 1852 [...] probably C15 octagonal font on cylindrical stem with octagonal base". Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble; "no subsidiary shafts; base of Ham Hill stone and late medieval".