Description
Wootton Glanville or Granville's Wootton, a parish, with a village and with Wootton Newlands tithing, in Dorsetshire, 7 miles SSE of Sherborne station on the L. & S.W.R. Acreage, 1705; population, 238. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £200 with residence. The church is in the Gothic style, and contains some handsome monuments. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Parish Church
The church of St. Mary is an edifice of stone, in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, south chapel, nave, south porch and a low embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing 4 bells: the south chapel was a chantry, and on its walls are monuments to members of the Williams, Every and Henley families: under the south-east window of this chapel is a recumbent effigy, in good preservation, supposed to represent Sir Henry de Glanville knt. founder of the chantry:the church was thoroughly restored in 1876 under the direction of Mr. Crickmay, diocesan architect: there are 171 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1546.
