Catherston Leweston (St Mary)

St Mary's Church, Catherston Leweston (2009)

This small church is by John Loughborough Pearson of 1858. The walls are of Blue Lias in what Pevsner calls a "crazy-paving pattern."

Sources:

• Betjeman, J., Sir John Betjeman's guide to English parish churches, revised and updated by Nigel Kerr. London: HarperCollins, 1993, p. 181.
• Catherston Leweston Church History, Golden Cap Benefice: http://www.goldencapbenefice.org.uk/catherston-church-history
• Dorset Historic Churches Trust, Dorset Churches. [Dorchester]: DHCT, 1988, p. 17.
• Hutchins, J. The history and antiquities of the County of Dorset, 3rd ed., edited by W. Shipp and J.W. Hodson, Westminster: J.B. Nichols, 1861-1870, Vol. x, p. x
• Newman, J. and Pevsner, N., The buildings of England: Dorset. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 130.
• Pitfield, F.P., Dorset parish churches, A-D. Milborne Port: Dorset Publishing Company, 1981, pp. 150, 152.
• Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol. 1, West Dorset. London: HMSO, 1952, p. 70.

Bells:

Canon Raven (1904, p. 93) reports that there is one bell with a diameter of 17 inches, cast from a piece of brass cannon taken from the Russians at Sebastopol during the Crimean War.

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