Bradford Peverell (St. Mary)

St. Mary's Church, Bradford Peverell, Dorset

Church by Decimus Burton, 1849-51. Notable for its slender spire - ususual for a village church in Dorset - and for some 15th century stained glass. More recent church guides give the dedication as the Church of the Assumption.

Sources:

• Dorset Historic Churches Trust, Dorset Churches. [Dorchester]: DHCT, 1988, p. x.
• John Hutchins, The history and antiquities of the County of Dorset, 3rd ed., edited by William Shipp and J.W. Hodson, Westminster: J.B. Nichols, 1861-1873, Vol. x, pp. x.
• Arthur Mee, ed., Dorset: Thomas Hardy's country. The King's England. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939, pp. 39-40.
• John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner, The buildings of England: Dorset. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 107.
• F.P. Pitfield, Dorset parish churches, A-D. Milborne Port: Dorset Publishing Company, 1981, pp. 95-97.
• Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol. 1, West Dorset. London: HMSO, 1952, pp. 34-35.

Bells:

Bell by Thomas Purdue, 1674, St. Mary's Church, Bradford Peverell, Dorset

These were for many years a ring of five, but they have recently (2010) been augmented to a ring of eight:

8, 5-3-27 in A

Three new trebles and a replacement for the old fourth were cast by John Taylor & Co (Lougborough) in 2009. The old fourth (by Thomas Purdue, 1674) is to be retained as a service bell. The remainder of the original ring are by Mears & Stainbank of 1896. For photographs of the bells and the frame, see: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38405668@N06/sets/72157622922083062/

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Old stained glass, north window in the chancel of St. Mary's Church, Bradford Peverell, Dorset

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