Description
Sydling St Nicholas, a parish, comprising two tithings and forming a liberty, in Dorsetshire, 3 miles from Grimston station on the G.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Dorchester. Acreage, 5130; population, 563. Court House is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £130 with residence. Patron, Winchester College. The church is good; and there are Wesleyan and Congregational chapels.
Parish Church
The church of St. Nicholas is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, south transept, north porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing a peal of 5 fine-toned bells: there are 349 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1565.
