Description
Hammoon, a parish in Dorsetshire, on the river Stour, 2 miles from Shillingstone station on the Somerset and Dorset railway. Post town, Blandford; money order office, Shilling-stone; telegraph office, Child Okeford. Acreage, 693; population, 83. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £160. The church is old but good, and was well restored in 1885.
Parish Church
The church of St. Mary is a plain but ancient building chiefly in the Decorated style, and consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and a western turret containing 2 bells: the nave is separated from the chancel by an arch upon which some ancient inscriptions were found and restored: the south door is of old oak: the hour glass still remains by the pulpit: the church was restored in 1885, at a cost of £900. defrayed by the 1st Viscount Portman and the Rev. D. H. Sawyer M.A. rector 1884-1912, and affords 80 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1656.
