Description
Tincleton, a parish in Dorsetshire, 2 miles N of Moreton station on the L. & S.W.R., and 5 1/2 E by N of Dorchester. Post town, Dorchester. Acreage, 900; population of the civil parish, 160; of the ecclesiastical, 328. Clyffe is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Woodsford, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church was erected in 1851.
Parish Church
The church of St. John the Evangelist, erected in 1841, is an edifice of stone in the Early Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch, and a western turret containing a clock and 2 bells: a reredos was erected in 1889 by Mrs. Porcher, in memory of Charles Porcher esq. of Clyffe, and there is a memorial window in the chancel, to Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard Torin Kindersley kt. (d. 1879), placed by E. L. Kindersley esq. of Clyffe: there are 175 sittings. Lord Herschell P.C., G.C.B. lord high chancellor 1886 and 1892-95, who died at Washington U.S.A. March 1, was buried here March 22, 1899.
The register dates from the year 1610.
