Lydlinch
| Lydlinch | |
| Dorset | |
|---|---|
 Parish church of St Thomas Becket | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | ST743135 |
| Location: | 50°55’13"N, 2°21’59"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 437 (2011) |
| Post town: | Sturminster Newton |
| Postcode: | DT10 |
| Dialling code: | 01963 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Dorset |
Lydlinch is a village about three miles west of Sturminster Newton in the Blackmore Vale in northern Dorset.
The parish, which includes the village of King's Stag to the south and hamlet of Stock Gaylard to the west, is bounded by the Lydden to the east and its tributary the Caundle Brook to the north. The 2011 census recorded the parish as having 199 dwellings,, 192 households and a population of 437.
Parish church
The Church of England parish church of St Thomas Becket has a 12th-century font, but the building itself is Perpendicular Gothic. The nave, chancel and west tower are 15th century. The north aisle and south porch were added in the 16th century. In the 19th century the north aisle was rebuilt and the north vestry added and the building was twice restored, the second time in 1875. The church is a Grade II* listed building.[1]
The tower has a ring of five bells. The 19th-century Dorset dialect poet William Barnes (1801–86), who was born just outside the parish in nearby Bagber,[2] wrote of them in a dialect poem: "Vor Lydlinch bells be good vor sound, And liked by all the neighbours round".[3] Thomas Purdue of Closworth, Somerset cast the second, fourth and tenor bells in 1681. Mears & Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry recast the treble and third bells in 1908.[4]
The parish is part of the Benefice of Sturminster Newton, Hinton St Mary and Lydlinch.[5]
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References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1110465: Parish church of St Thomas Beckett (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ Wightman, p141
- ↑ North Dorset District Council (1982). North Dorset District Official Guide. Home Publishing Co. Ltd. pp. 37–8.
- ↑ Baldwin, John (19 July 2006). "Lydlinch S Thomas a Becket". Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. Central Council of Church Bell Ringers. http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=Lydlinch&Submit=+Go+&DoveID=LYDLINCH. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
- ↑ Archbishops' Council (2015). "Benefice of Sturminster Newton, Hinton St. Mary and Lydlinch". A Church Near You. Church of England. http://www.achurchnearyou.com/benefice.php?B=34/328BM. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09598-2
- Lydlinch: An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 3, pages 135–142
- Wightman, Ralph (1983) [1965]. Portrait of Dorset. Portrait Books. London: Robert Hale]]. ISBN 0-7090-0844-9.
