Blakemere is a village in SW Herefordshire, midway between Hereford and Hay-on-Wye. It lies E of a wooded ridge separating the flood-plain of the Wye to the NE from the valley of the Dore to the SW. The village is one of a chain of settlements on the E side of this ridge, including also Tyberton, Moccas, Bredwardine, Shenmore and Cublington. The church stands in the centre of the village, and is simple two-cell building of coursed sandstone rubble with a triple bell-cote on the W gable and a timber S porch. It was rebuilt in 1877 by G. Truefitt, who reused the 12thc S doorways to both nave and chancel, and the 12thc chancel arch. The font is also 12thc.

Blakemere is not found in the Domesday Survey. By the 13thc it was in the hands of the Le Strange family.

The fonts at nearby Peterchurch is similar in having a band of heavy cable marking the bottom of the bowl, but not the bottom of the block, and rather further away, near Leominster, is another example at Humber. The Stretton Sugwas font is similar, with a plain band instead of the cable ornament. This looks like a workshop practice.