Description
Tarrant Keynston, a parish in Dorsetshire, 2 miles NE of Spetisbury station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint railway, and 3 ESE of Blandford. It has a post office under Blandford; money order and telegraph office, Spetisbury. Acreage, 1348; population, 260. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £320 with residence. The church is good. In the village are the remains of an old cross.
Parish Church
The church of All Saints, rebuilt with the exception of the tower in 1853, is of flint and stone in the Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, nave, north aisle of three bays, with octagonal piers, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 4 bells: tow coats of arms, carved in stone, of the Highly family of Upton, were found under one of the pews: in the chancel is a brass memorial to a former rector: a memorial window was inserted in 1897 by D'arcy Todd esq. to the late Col. Todd and his wife: there are about 300 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1737.
