Description
Mintern Magna, a parish in Dorsetshire, at the source of the river Cerne, 2 1/2 miles N of Ceme Abbas, and 5 E by N of Evershot station on the G.W.R., with a post office under Cerne; money order and telegraph office, Cerne. It includes the hamlets of Hartley and Tiley, and the tithing of Middlemarsh. Acreage, 2206; population, 339. The parish council consists of seven members. Mintern House is the seat of Lord Digby. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury ; value, £100 with residence. Patron, Lord Alington. The church of St Andrew has been restored, has a tower, and contains monuments to the Napiers and Churchills.
Parish Church
The church of St. Andrew is a plain building of stone, In the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing a clock and 8 tubular bells : the chancel and north aisle were restored by the late H. C. Sturt esq.: in 1894 the tower was restored and heightened, and in 1897 the church was entirely reseated in oak and 3 stained windows erected as memorials to the late Hon. Theresa Digby: there is also a memorial window, erected in 1896: to Lady Caroline Kerrison : there are 170 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1635.
Villages, Hamlets, &c.
Hartley, a hamlet in Mintern Magna parish, Dorsetshire, 2 miles N of Cerne Abbas.
Middlemarsh, a tithing in Mintem Magna parish, Dorsetshire, 3 1/2 miles N of Cerne Abbas. A seat of the abbots of Cerne and of the N 1/2piers was here.
