Up Cerne / Obcerne / Upcerne / Upper Cerne

There is an entry for Up Cerne [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST6502/up-cerne/] [accessed 20 February 2023]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lewis' Dictionary 9of 1848 reports "a font of large dimensions" in this church. The font is also noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font is of rude workmanship, probably Norman, consisting of a square block of Purbeck marble, supported by a cylindrical shaft, with four small columns at the corners." Noted in Long (1923) and in Mee (1939) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. The familiar Purbeck type of the C12. Square." Noted and illustratedn The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricgucrchestrust.co.uk/up_cerne.htm]: "the square Purbeck font is 12C." The font consists of a square basin with tapering sides decorated with shallow-carved motifs, raised on a central shaft and four corner collonnettes, all around and plain, and a square lower base. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST6583002742] notes: "Parish Church, now private chapel. Possibly C15 origin, largely rebuilt 1870 [...] Cl2 font with square Purbeck marble bowl with round head panels, and some scallops, cylindrical stem with later subsidary shafts". Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "bowl with scallop pattern on one face and panels on others; subsidiary shafts modern" [source given: RCHM (W), 1952].