Winterborne Thomson
Extract
from Hutchins History of Dorset
extracted
by Dorinda Miles
This
little vill, a tything in conjunction with Anderson, now reduced to a farmhouse,
some cottages and the church, stands on the Bourne, scarce half a mile east of
Anderson.
The church was dedicated to St Andrew, and was then a free chapel; the advowson belonged to Marjoria Tourney. It is a small fabric, built of stone and brick and tiled, having no tower, and containing nothing remarkable. The chancel is of a semi-circular form. The whole was rebuilt and neatly pewed by the late Archbishop Wake.
LIST
OF RECTORS
Richard,
Rector of Mappowder 1330
John
Goyler 1405
Blase
Carpenter 1534
Thomas
Bagshaw, inst 26 April 1553
Vincent
Tutty, on the death of Bagshaw, inst 12 Aug 1566
George
Sheppherd, on the resignation of Tutty, inst Oct 1567
John
Bennet, on the death of the last incumbent, inst 10 June 1589
Abel
Sellie
Thomas
Cox, on the death of Sellie, inst 5 Feb 1661
John
Seward
Obadiah
Beane, on the death of Seward, inst 28 May 1697
Samuel
Basket, MA on the death of Beane, inst 29 Jan 1713
John
Powel BA Rector of South Mapperton, on the cessation of
Basket,
inst 12 Jan 1715
Monk
Crabb MA, on the death of Powel, inst 28 July 1734
Robert
Maurice MA on the death of Crabb, inst July 1763
Also Rector of Burleston and Athelhampton
Edward
Bankes MA, inst 1818, on the death of Maurice; afterwards
Rector
of Corfe Castle
George
Pickard, Cambridge MA, inst May 1822 on the resignation of
Bankes.