Description
Winterborne Clenston, a parish in Dorsetshire, 4 miles SW of Blandford station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint railway. Post town, Blandford. Acreage, 1312; population, 103. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £200 with residence. Three churches formerly were here, and the present church was rebuilt in 1840.
Parish Church
The church of St. Nicholas, rebuilt in 1840 by Mrs. Michel, is an edifice of flint and Portland stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, western porch and a western tower with spire, containing one bell: in the chancel is a handsome stained window: there are brasses to Capt. H. Mansell-Pleydell, erected by his brother officers, and to the late J. C. Mansel-Pleydell esq. and at the entrance to the churchard is a fine marble cross, erected to Capt. Pleydell by his parents: the church was reseated in 1901: there are 150 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1750.
