Description
Warmwell, a parish in Dorsetshire, 2 1/2 miles SSW of Moreton station on the L. & S.W.R., and 5 SE of Dorchester. It has a post office under Dorchester; money order office, Broadmayne; telegraph office, Moreton railway station. Acreage, 1698; population of the civil parish, 183; of the ecclesiastical with Pokeswell, 323. Warmwell House is the chief residence. The living is a rectory, united with Pokeswell, in the diocese of Salisbury; net value of the united rectories, £290. The church is a building of stone in the Early English style; the chancel was rebuilt in 1881.
Parish Church
The church of the Holy Trinity is a small fabric of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch, and a low western tower containing 4 bells; it was repaired and reseated in 1851; the chancel was rebuilt in 1881 at a cost of £1,300, defrayed by the Rev. E. Pickard-Cambridge, then rector, to whose wife a memorial window has been erected; there is also a memorial brass, erected in 1901, to the late Rev. Joseph Wood, rector here 1895-1900: the tower was almost entirely rebuilt and the bells rehung in 1887, at the cost of Lieut-Col. A. B. Foster: there are 120 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1641.
