Corfe Castle (St. Edward, King and Martyr)

St. Edward, Corfe Castle

Sources:

• Hutchins, J. The history and antiquities of the County of Dorset, 3rd ed., edited by W. Shipp and J.W. Hodson, Westminster: J.B. Nichols, 1861-1873, Vol. 1, 1861, pp. 539-541.
• Mee, A., ed., Dorset: Thomas Hardy's country. The King's England. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939, pp. 71-76.
• Newman, J. and Pevsner, N., The buildings of England: Dorset. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 166-167.
• Pitfield, F.P., Dorset parish churches A-D. Milborne Port: Dorset Publishing Company, 1981, pp. 203-206.
• Pitfield, F.P., Purbeck parish churches. Milborne Port: Dorset Publishing Company, 1985, pp. 18-24.
• Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol. 2, South-East Dorset. London: HMSO, 1970, pt. 1, pp. 53-54.
• Sackett, T. and Sackett, E., Francis Frith's Dorset Churches. Salisbury: Frith Book Co., 2000, p. 83.

Current church guide (available July 2000):

The Church of St. Edward King and Martyr, Corfe Castle.
Illustrated eight page booklet containing a short history of the church - including the Victorian restoration and more recent changes. Other booklets available are a life of the Saxon King Edward - who was murdered in AD 978 or 979 - and a detailed History of the bells and bellframe prior to renovation that was published in 1995 to support the restoration of the bells.

St. Edward's Church, Corfe Castle, Dorset

Bells:

There are six bells, the Tenor weighing 11 cwt.

For more information see:
http://www.purbecktowers.homestead.com/Corfepage.html

The village of Corfe Castle from the Castle, 9 August 1987

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Maintained by Michael Day, Last updated: 29 September 2000.