Description
Bradford-Peverell, a village and a parish in Dorsetshire. The village stands on the river Frome, under Bradford-Down, near the Roman road to Ilchester, 3 miles NW by W of Dorchester station on the L. & S.W.R. and G.W.R. It has a post office under Dorchester; money order and telegraph office, Charminster. Acreage of parish, 2254; population, 368. The parish includes also the hamlet of Muckleford. Roman antiquities have been found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £113 with residence. Patron, Winchester College. The church is modern Gothic, and contains specimens of 13th century glass.
Parish Church
The church of St. Mary, standing in the centre of the village, and rebuilt in 1850, in the Early English style, is an edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and an embattled western tower with spire containing 5 bells, rehung and two new bells added in 1897: one of the windows bears the arms and motto of Bishop William of Wykeham: there is also some old glass in the chancel, and the east window is mostly filled with ancient glass brought from New College, Oxford: there are two memorial windows to members of the Middleton family, one to Lieut. Edward Williams, who fell in the Soudan war, and another to Capt. FitzRoy; there are also tablets to the Rev. Middleton Onslow and the Rev. H. Blackstone Williams, former rectors, and one to members of the Onslow family: the church affords 190 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1653.
