Ryme Intrinseca

Ryme Intrinseca
Dorset
Cottages in Ryme Intrinseca
Location
Grid reference:	ST582108
Location:	50°53’45"N, 2°35’47"W
Data
Population:	115  (2011)
Post town:	Sherborne
Postcode:	DT9
Local Government
Council:	Dorset
Parliamentary constituency:	West Dorset

Ryme Intrinseca is a village in northern Dorset, close by the border of Somerset to the west. It is four miles south of Yeovil in the latter county and a mile west of Yetminster (Dorset). The village stands on a low ridge of cornbrash limestone on the edge of the Blackmore Vale.

Anciently two parishes in Dorset were named Ryme, leading to potential confusion, so at some time during the Middle Ages one manor was named Ryme Intrinseca and the other 'Ryme Extrinsica' (in Long Bredy and Langton Herring, in the south of the county).

The 2011 census recorded a parish population of 115.

The church at Ryme Intrinseca, which dates back to the 13th century, is dedicated to St Hyppolyte: one of only two churches with such a dedication in the Church of England. The chancel and nave of St Hyppolyte's church are of the 13th century, but architecturally the most interesting features lie in the unusual 17th-century work which includes the east window and most of the windows in the nave, (including the little trefoil placed high to light the pulpit).

Also from the early 17th century is the tower, with its intricate profile caused by the projecting stairway. There is an alms dish in the church which was lost in 1873 and found its way back to Dorset from Bideford in Devon in 1938.

Ryme once constituted a separate liberty, containing only the parish itself.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Ryme Intrinseca)

• St Hyppolyte's Church: Three Valleys Benefice
• Ryme Intrinseca on 'Dorset Online Parish Clerks'