Description
Catherston-Lewston, a parish in Dorsetshire, on the river Char, 3 miles NE of Lyme-Regis, and 6 1/2 WNW of Bridport railway station. It has a post office under Charmouth, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 245; population, 21. Catherston was the seat of Judge Jeffreys. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £61. The church was rebuilt in 1858, and contains some beautiful stained glass windows.
Parish Church
The church of St. Mary, erected in 1858 at the sole expense of the late Robert Charles Hildyard esq. on the ancient site, is a building of stone in the Early Decorated style, consists of chancel and nave, and a western turret containing one bell, brought from Sebastopol: the whole of the windows are stained; there are 50 sittings.
The register appears to have been kept with that of Wotton Fitzpaine until December, 1837, but some portions have been lost.
