Description
Alton-Pancras or Alton St Pancras, a parish in Dorset. It lies in a fertile and well-wooded valley under the downs, 2 3/4 miles NE of Cerne-Abbas, and 9 from Dorchester on the G.W.R. and L. & S.W.R. Post town, Cerne under Dorchester. Acreage, 2280; population, 229. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £200. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury. The church has been rebuilt.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
Parish Church
The church of St Pancras, rebuilt in 1875 from the designs of Mr. Crickmay, of Weymouth, is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch, and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing 4 bells: there are 150 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1673.
