Description
Langton Long Blandford, a parish in Dorsetshire, on the river Stour, I mile SE of Blandford station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint railway. Post town, Blandford. Acreage, 1811; population, 242. The manor, with Langton House, belongs to the Farquharson family. A lepers' hospital was in the parish before the time of Edward I. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £310 with residence. The church was rebuilt by the patron in 1862 at a cost of about £2000; is in the Later English style, cruciform, of flint with stone bands, and has a pinnacled tower 57 feet high.
Parish Church
The church of All Saints, rebuilt in the Transition style in 1862 at a cost of £2,000, is of stone and flint and consists of chancel, nave of three bays, transepts, south porch, and an embattled western tower with pinnacles containing 3 bells: there are three memorial windows in the chancel and various other stained windows, and an ancient brass with an illegible date: the church affords 200 sittings.
The register dates from the middle of the 16th century.
