Description
Winterborne Kingston, a parish in Dorsetshire, 4 1/2 miles SW of Spetisbury station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint railway, and 6 SSW of Blandford. It has a post office under Blandford; money order and telegraph office, Whitechurch. Acreage, 2559; population, 500. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to Bere Regis. The church is a building of flint and stone in the Early English style. There are Wesleyan and Congregational chapels.
Parish Church
The church of St. Nicholas is an ancient edifice of stone and flint, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle and an embattled western tower containing 4 bells: it was restored in 1873, from the designs of the late G. E. Street R.A. when the north aisle and a memorial window to Mrs. Michel were added: there are also two stained windows to the Besent family: the church has sittings for 298 persons.
The register begins in 1598, but is imperfect between the years 1599 and 1613 and between 1675 and 1696.
