Description
Winterborne Zelstone, a parish in Dorsetshire, 4 miles WSW of Bailey Gate station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint railway, 7 S by E of Blandford, and 7 NW of Wimborne. Post town, Blandford; money order and telegraph office, Bere Regis. Acreage, 848; population, 173. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £165. The church was rebuilt in 1866.
Parish Church
The church of St. Mary is an edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch, and a lofty embattled western tower containing 4 bells; it was entirely rebuilt, with the exception of the tower, in 1866, at the expense of J. J. Farquharson esq.; and in 1905 the bells were rehung and the roof restored at a cost of £200: there are 200 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1548.
