Description
Hinton St Mary, a village and a parish in Dorsetshire. The village stands near the river Stour, 1 1/2 mile N of Sturminster Newton station on the Somerset and Dorset railway, and has a post office under Blandford; money order and telegraph office, Sturminster Newton. Acreage of parish, 1069 j population, 252. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £240 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Iwerne Minster. The church is good, and has a tower and some very old monuments. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and charities.
Parish Church
The church of St. Peter, rebuilt, with the exception of the tower, in 1846, is an edifice in the Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing 2 bells: there is a monument to the Freke family, dated 1655: the church affords 140 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1581.
