Description
Critchell, Long, a parish in Dorsetshire, on the Roman 'road from Old Sarum, 6 miles WSW of Cranborae, and 6 from BlandjEord station on the Somerset and Dorset railway. It has a post office under Salisbury; money order and telegraph office, Witchampton. Acreage, 2018; population of the civil parish, 156; of the ecclesiastical, 538. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Critchell-Moore, in the diocese of Salisbury ; value, £174; with residence. Patron, Lord Alington.
Parish Church
The church of St. Mary, a building of stone in the Decorated style, restored in 1852, at an expense of upwards of £4,000, by the late H.C. Sturt esq. consists of apsidal chancel, nave, transepts, and an embattled western tower with pinnacles containing 6 bells: there is an ancient brass: the church affords 160 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1663.
