Description
Yetminster, a village and a parish in Dorsetshire. The village has a station on the G.W.R., 137 miles from London, and 4 1/2 SSE of Yeovil, was once a market-town, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Sherborne, and fairs on 27 April and 5 October. The parish includes Leigh and Chetnole chapelries, and comprises 1480 acres; population of the civil parish, 655; of the ecclesiastical, 934. The living is a vicarage, with Chetnole annexed, in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £260 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Salisbury. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style. A chapel of ease is in Chetnole, and the vicarage of Leigh is a separate benefice. There are a Wesleyan chapel and temperance hall.
Parish Church
The church of St. Andrew is an ancient building of stone, in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, north porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing 5 bells and a clock with chimes, playing the air of "God Save the King," at 3, 6, 9 and 12; the nave, tower and chancel were restored in 1890, and the bells rehung: the restoration of the church was completed in 1907, when it was reseated in Austrian oak, a new oak door placed in the north porch and a new oak screen erected across the tower arch: a new organ was added in 1908: there are sittings for 170 persons.
The register dates from the year 1683.
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