Description
Turnworth, a parish in Dorsetshire, 3 1/2 miles from Shillingstone station on the Somerset and Dorset railway. It has a post office under Blandford; money order and telegraph office, Shillingstone. Acreage, 1176; population of the civil parish, 111; of the ecclesiastical, 127. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £120 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Salisbury. The church is a small edifice of stone in the Early English style, and with the exception of the tower, which is old, was rebuilt in 1869.
Parish Church
The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a small edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, north aisle, and a western tower containing 3 bells: it was originally built in the 13th century, and with the exception of the tower was rebuilt in 1869, in memory of William Parry-Okeden esq.: there are two stained windows, and some memorial tablets to the Okeden ands Twinyhoe families: the church affords 140 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1573.
