Hinton St. George / Hantone

There is an entry for Hinton [St George] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST4112/hinton-st-george/] [accessed 13 February 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Wade & Wade (1929) write: "The font is carved with shields bearing alternately a cross and the Poulett arms." Described in Pevsner (1958): "Circular, Late Norman." The basin is cylindrical, with shields in quatrefoils all around the sides, alternating a coat of arms [cf. supra] and the emblem of the Cross; a protruding band of foliage decorates the lower rim, and it projects on the underbowl a pattern of ribs towards the stem; the basin is raised on a round stem decorated with trefoiled arches or windows all around, and on a moulded circular lower base. Square plinth with chamfered angles. The Somerset Historic Environment Record (No. 58980) (1986) [http://webapp1.somerset.gov.uk/her/details.asp?prn=58980] [accessed 16 March 2008] notes: "C13 font had bowl decorated in C15". [NB: the design of this font is not at all characteristic of 15th-century English fonts, therefore the re-carving explanation makes sense]. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 4, 1978) notes: "The church of ST. GEORGE, so dedicated by the early 13th century, [...] was apparently consecrated on 6 February in an unknown year [...] The font was originally in a plain 13th-century style, but decoration was added in the mid 15th century, incorporating the Poulett arms."