Dorchester nr. Weymouth No. 2 / Dore Cestre / Dorecestre

There are three entries for this Dorchester [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SY6890/dorchester/] [accessed 2 November 2014], reporting two churches and church lands here. During his visit to this church in October 1825, Glynne (1923) noted: "The font is of an early period, and is a large square moulded (one) with semi-circular arches, and upon a plain pedestal." In a later visit in 1852. Glynne (ibid.) added: "All Saints church was wholly rebuilt about 1841. Not a vestige of the old church remains." The entry for this church in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset (vol. 2, Souuth east, 1970) notes: "The old church on the site was destroyed by fire in 1613. Its replacement was itself demolished and replaced in the mid 19th century by the present church in the early 14th-century Gothic style from the designs of Benjamin Ferrey; the foundation stone was laid in 1843 [...] Fonts: In N.W. tower, square bowl, each face with arcading of round-headed sunk panels, 12th-century, disused. In nave, of freestone, octagonal, with ogee-headed panels on each face framing trefoil-headed sinkings, on each angle a large blank shield, probably 1843. The modern font-cover incorporates a globe and dove said to be from the former sounding-board of the pulpit."