Arne (St. Nicholas)

St. Nicholas's Church, Arne, Dorset

Sources:

• Dorset Historic Churches Trust, Dorset Churches. [Dorchester]: DHCT, 1988, p. 8.
• John Hutchins, The history and antiquities of the County of Dorset, 3rd ed., edited by William Shipp and James Whitworth Hodson, Westminster: J.B. Nichols, 1861-1873, Vol. 1, 1861 pp. 98-99.
• John Kinross., Discovering England's smallest churches. London: Wiedenfeld & Nicholson, 2003, pp. 42-43.
• John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner, The buildings of England: Dorset. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 77.
• Mee, A., ed., Dorset: Thomas Hardy's country. The King's England. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939, pp. 19-20.
• F.P. Pitfield, Dorset parish churches, A-D. Milborne Port: Dorset Publishing Company, 1981, pp. 35-37.
• F.P. Pitfield Purbeck parish churches. Milborne Port: Dorset Publishing Company, 1985, pp. 7-10.
• Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol. 2, South-East Dorset. London: HMSO, 1970, p. 9.

Bells:

Raven (1904, p. 116) says that there was one bell in the west gable (diameter, 31 in., height, 22 in.). He records the inscription as:

Chapman & Mears fecerunt 1782
Former bell - Love God I. D. R R T. 1625.

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