Description
Corscombe, a parish in Dorsetshire, 4 miles NE of Beaminster, and 5 from Sutton Bingham station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post and money order office under Dorchester; telegraph office, Evershot. Acreage, 5008; population of the civil parish, 623; of the ecclesiastical, 558. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £460 with residence. The church is of the time of Henry VII., and is good; it was restored and enlarged in 1876.
Parish Church
The church of St. Mary, rebuilt in the 15th century, and again rebuilt and refitted, with the exception of the north porch, in 1746, was restored and enlarged in 1876 mainly at the expense of George Troyte-Chafyn-Grove esq. and now consists of chancel, nave of five bays, south aisle, north porch, and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing 6 bells: the carved pulpit of Caen stone and marble was given by the late George Bullock esq, in 1883, as a memorial to his wife, who died in 1866: the stained east window was placed to the memory of Edward Berkeley Troyte LL.D. and the west window is also stained: there are 226 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1595; part is not legible.
