Description
Bettiscombe, a parish in Dorsetshire, 5 miles W of Beaminster, and 5 from Chard Road railway station on the L. & S.W.R. The area is 650 acres; population, 59. Post town, Charmouth (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Broadwinsor. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £159 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1862, and is in the Early Perpendicular style.
Parish Church
The church of St Stephen, rebuilt in 1862, is an edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, north aisle, south porch, and an embattled western tower containing one bell: the stained east window was presented in 1864 by the late J. Tatchell-Bullen esq. of Marshwood Manor: there are memorial windows to the Rev. James Woodward Scott, a former rector, and Mrs. Scott and their two children: the church affords 200 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1740.
