Description
Kington Magna, a village and a parish in Dorsetshire. The village stands near the river Cale and the boundary with Somerset, 3 1/4 miles WSW of Gillingham station on the L. & S.W.R., and 6 1/2 W of Shaftesbury, with a post office under Gillingham; money order and telegraph office, Sandley. The parish extends across the Cale to the boundary with Somerset, and includes the tithing of Nyland. Acreage, 1986; population, 427. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £490 with residence. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1862. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Parish Church
The church of All Saints is a cruciform building of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and an embattled western tower containing a clock and 5 bells; the 4 old bells were rehung in 1890 and a new one added in 1914; the tenor is of pre-Reformation date, and bears the inscription: "Sancte Georgi, ora pro nobis": the chancel arch is Norman: the stained east window was presented by the Rev. W. L. Smith, a former rector; the west window is in memory of members of the Dugdale family, and there are four others: the church was restored in 1862 by the Rev. William Dugdale, and will seat 320 people. There is a list of rectors dating from 1295.
The register dates from the year 1660.
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