East Holme
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East Holme | |
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![]() East Holme | |
Location within Dorset | |
Population | 50 |
OS grid reference | SY895860 |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Wareham |
Postcode district | BH20 |
Police | Dorset |
Fire | Dorset and Wiltshire |
Ambulance | South Western |
UK Parliament | |
East Holme is a small village and civil parish situated about halfway between Wool and Wareham in Dorset, England. The village is sprawled around a large house called Holme Priory. In 2013 the estimated population of the civil parish was 50.[1]
The South West Main Line from London Waterloo to Weymouth runs through the village and, although the train does not stop, the village contains one of only a few of the remaining manned gate crossings. These have become particularly rare in the area.
Parish church
[edit]East Holme is also fortunate to contain the church of St, John the Evangelist standing rather apart from the rest of the village, which was built in 1865.[2] The footpath across the park to the church is signposted and crosses in front of the priory, a fine late 18th century house, built on the site of a former, small Cluniac priory.
Following the dissolution the Priory church survived as the parish church until 1715. A new parish church was built in 1865 to the designs of John Hicks, and is one of his more elaborate churches.[3] Now it has a faintly seedy air, which somehow suits this fine example of high Victorian taste. Built from local materials - dark brown hearthstone quarried close by, With a Purbeck limestone roof, and Purbeck Marble shafts inside.
The painted decoration inside the church is by Miss Selina Bond.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Parish Population Data". Dorset County Council. 20 January 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ^ "East Holme Parish Records, Dorset". www.opcdorset.org. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
- ^ "East Holme Parish Records, Dorset". www.opcdorset.org. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
- ^ "East Holme Parish Records, Dorset". www.opcdorset.org. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
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