Yetminster No. 2 / Etiminstre

There is an entry for Yetminster [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST5910/yetminster/] [accessed 20 February 2023]; despite its name it reports no cleric or church in it. Mayo (1891) writes: "Entering the church [...] we observe the Perpendicular font, formed of one piece with a section of the adjacent column -- the old Purbeck base of the Early English font already mentioned [?], a circle with four smaller circles for pillasters, foun inverted on the floor at the north-west corner of the tower". Noted in Long (1923) as a "good specimen" of the octagonal font of the Perpendicular period. The entry for Yetminster in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 1, West (London, 1952), pp. 270-274. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/dorset/vol1/pp270-274 [accessed 20 February 2023] notes: "Parish Church Of St. Andrew stands at the S. end of the village. The walls are of local rubble with dressings of Ham Hill and other local stone and the roofs are lead-covered. The Chancel was built c. 1300; a consecration is recorded in 1312. About the middle of the 15th century the rest of the church, consisting of the Nave, North and South Aisles, West Tower and North Porch was rebuilt. The church was restored in 1890 and in more recent years [...] Font: octagonal bowl with rim, concave under-side, octagonal moulded stem and hollow-chamfered base, 15th-century, built into S.W. pier of nave"; the entry also notes the remains of an earlier font here: "In S. aisle—in W. wall, stone base of font with bases for central and four attached shafts, early 13th-century." Newman & Pevsner (1972) write: "Font. Only the foot of a typical Purbeck C12 or C13 font remains, made of five supports." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST5943810646] notes: "Anglican Parish Church. Chancel late C13, rest of church C15. Restored 1890 [...] Base of C13 font re-set in west wall of aisle [...] Simple Cl5 font."