Description
Long Burton, a parish, with a village, in Dorsetshire, 2 1/2 miles S by E of Sherborne station on the L. & S.W.R. There is a post office under Sherborne; money order and telegraph office, Sherborne. Acreage, 1041; population of the civil parish, 330 ; of the ecclesiastical, with Holnest, 448. Limestone for building is quarried. The living is a vicarage, with the chapelry of Holnest annexed, in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £200 with residence. The church contains monuments of the Fitzjames family, and was restored in 1873. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a parish council consisting of five members.
Parish Church
The church of St. James the Great is a building of stone consisting of chancel with aisle, nave, south porch, north aisle and an embattled western tower containing 4 bells, rehung in 1902 at a cost of about £70: the church contains several monuments to the Fitzjames family, and was restored in 1873, with the addition of the north aisle, at a cost of £1,437: the chancel aisle is Jacobean, the tower Early English, and the rest of the church Perpendicular: several of the windows are stained: there are sittings for 200.
The register dates from the year 1589.
