Turnworth

Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font is formed like a cup or a bowl, on a low base." Listed in Long (1923) as a baptismal font perhaps of the Norman period. Mee (1939) writes: "in the tower we found a tiny font hardly bigger than a basin at which generations of children have been christened here." Newman & Pevsner (1972), however, write: "Font. Elaborately High Victorian with small figure scenes." The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk] informs that the baptismal font dates from the 1869 century. [NB: are/were there two fonts in this church? -- where is the font that Long saw?-- the 15th-century tower remains of the building that existed before the 19th-century re-building]