Description
Hinton Martell or Hinton Magna, a parish in Dorsetshire, 4 miles N by E of Wimborne town and station on the L. & S.W.E. It has a post office under Wimborne; money order and telegraph office, Witchampton. Acreage, 1554; population, 359. The manor belongs to the Earl of Shaftes-hury. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £230 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Shaftesbnry. The church was rebuilt in 1870, and is a handsome stone building in the semi-Norman style.
Parish Church
The church of St. John the Evangelist, rebuilt on the site of the old edifice in 1870, is an edifice of stone erected in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north transept, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 5 bells: the stained east window was presented by Sir Richard Glyn bart.; there is also one erected by the Freemasons to Henry Charles Burt, and one by Mr. Henry Burt in memory of his father: the church affords 200 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1561.
