Description
Caundle Stourton, a parish in Dorsetshire, 3 miles SW from Stalbridge railway station, and 4 1/2 WNW of Sturminster. It has a post office under Sturminster Newton (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Stalbridge. Acreage, 2004; population, 295. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £50. The church is ancient, and has a tower. Haddon Lodge is in the parish.
Parish Church
The church is an ancient edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave of two bays, aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and 4 bells: there is a monument to one of the members of the Stourton family: the church was restored in 1902 and affords 160 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1670.
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