Description
Winterborne Came, a parish, with Cripton hamlet, in Dorsetshire, 1 1/2 mile SE of Dorchester station on the G.W.R. Post town, Dorchester. Acreage, 1544; population of the civil parish, 130; of the ecclesiastical, 181. A nunnery cell to Caen, in Normandy, was here. Came House is the chief residence, and belongs to the Earl of Portarlington. The living is a rectory, united with Winterborne Faringdon, in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £190. The church is in the Later English style, with an embattled tower.
Parish Church
The church os St. Peter is a small building of stone, in the Later English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch and an embattled western tower containing 2 bells: there is a carved oak screen, two full-sized recumbent effigies and memorial windows to Sir Arthur Charles Magenis, Countess Fortescue, the Hon. Mrs. Damer, Col. Damer and Mrs. Wilmot Williams: the church affords 100 sittings: in the churchyard is the Damer family vault, and a tomb to the memory of the Rev. William Barnes B.D. poet and philologist, rector here 1862-86.
The register dates from the year 1696.
Villages, Hamlets, &c.
Cripton, a hamlet in Winterbourne-Came parish, Dorsetshire, 2 1/4 miles S of Dorchester.
