Description
Chetnole, a township and chapelry in Yetminster parish, Dorsetshire, near the Roman road from Dorchester, 2 miles from Yetminster station on the G.W.R., and 6 1/2 SSW of Sherborne. It has a post and telgraph office under Sherborne; money order office, Yetminster. Acreage, 732; population, 272. The living is a chapelry, annexed to the vicarage of Yetminster, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is very old.
Parish Church
The church of St. Peter is a handsome stone building in the Third Pointed style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, north aisle, south porch, and embattled western tower with pinnacles with clock and 3 bells; the tower was rebuilt in the year 1580: the chancel and north aisle were added about 1860, and in 1897 the roof of the chancel was renewed and the bell cage repaired at a cost of £190: there are 230 sittings.
