Description
Ashmore, a parish in Dorset, contiguous to Wilts, 5 miles SE of Shaftesbury, and 9 from Semley station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post office under Salisbury; money order office, Fontmell Magna; telegraph office, Donhead St Andrew. Acreage, 2376; population, 228. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £180. There is a Wesleyan chapel. The Church of St Nicholas is in the Early English style, and was built on the site of the old one in 1874, and contains some fine stained glass windows.
Parish Church
The church of St Nicholas, erected and opened in 1874, is of stone, in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave, north aisle, vestry and south porch: there are five stained windows, and a brass to the Rev. Thomas Davison, 17 years rector of this parish: the bowl of the old font, placed on a modern stem, is now used as a piscina: the church will seat 160 persons.
The register dates from the year 1654.
