Description
Ryme Intrinsica, a village and a parish in Dorsetshire. The village stands 1 mile W of Yetminster station on the G.W.R., and 5 1/2 miles SW of Sherborne. It was once a market-town. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Yetminster. Acreage of the civil parish, 1162; population, 170; of the ecclesiastical, 163. The manor belongs to the Duchy of Cornwall. A royal hunting-seat was formerly at Court Hill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury ; gross value, £180 with residence. Patron, the Prince of Wales. The church is a small stone building in the Norman style.
Parish Church
The church of St. Hippolyte is a building of stone in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing a clock and 3 bells, which were rehung and the tenor one recast in 1903 at the cost of A. S. Williams esq. of Yetminster: the chancel was restored in 1913 by Lady Headley: there are 100 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1682.
