Dorchester nr. Weymouth No. 3 / 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. The font here is noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "There is an ancient font, the bowl and stem of which appear to be of Norman character." Barnes (1891), however, notes: "The only remains of the old church are a font now in the rectory garden, the basin of Ham Hill stone, dated 1662; the base of the 14th century style, the intermediate member between the two which does not belong to the font may be of 15th century date." [NB: are they writing about the same font?]. The entry for this church in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset (vol. 2, Souuth east, 1970) notes that it "was entirely rebuilt in 1876" and inludes from the earlier church just a few items of the 17th century or later; it des not mention a font in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [ notes: "Dorchester's three ancient parishes of Holy Trinity, St Peter and All Saints are all of pre-medieval origin and there has been a succession of buildings on the site of Holy Trinity Church in High West Street. Reference is made to Holy Trinty Church in the C11 Domesday Book. The church was rebuilt, though possibly incorporating some fabric from the earlier church, in 1876 [...] an octagonal font with an oval marble bowl carried on clustered marble columns", the latter also 19th-century.