Description
Buckland-Newton or Buckland-Abbas, a parish and a hundred in Dorsetshire. It contains six tithings (Buckland, Duntiphe, Brockhampton, Knoll, Little Minterne, and Plush). The parish lies 3 1/2 miles NE by N of Cerne-Abbas, and 6 E by N of Evershot railway station, and includes a village, which formerly was the seat of a market. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Dorchester. The civil parish comprises 6250 acres; population, 873. The living is a vicarage, united with the perpetual curacy of Plush, in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £235 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Wells. The parish church has an Early English chancel and Perpendicular nave and aisles. The chancel was restored in 1870, and the remainder of the building in 1878. There are also Baptist, Congregational, and Primitive Methodist chapels. Plush church is a neat structure of 1848, and was partially restored in 1883.
Parish Church
The church of the Holy Rood is a building of stone in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles and spire, containing a clock and 6 bells: there is a brass tablet, erected in 1624 , to Thomas Barnes; a marble tablet to --- Fitz-Roy esq. 1781, and his widow, Elizabeth (the builder of Castle Hill mansion), who died in 1806, and a curious carved oak almsbox on a pedestal: the chancel was restored in 1870, and the nave in 1879, at a total cost of £2,600: there are 280 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1568 and is in good preservation.
Villages, Hamlets, &c.
Duntish, a tithing in Buckland-Newton parish, Dorsetshire, 3 1/2 miles NE of Cerne-Abbas. A Roman camp of 10 acres is here, and has yielded Roman coins and arms.
Knowle, a tithing in Buckland Newton parish, Dorsetshire, 3 1/2 miles NE of Ceme Abbas.
