Melbury Abbas (St. Thomas)

St. Thomas's Church, Melbury Abbas, Dorset

Sources:

• Bob Breach, Melbury Abbas: a narrative history of a Dorset parish, Melbury Abbas: Melbury Press, 1998.
• John Hutchins, The history and antiquities of the County of Dorset, 3rd ed., edited by William Shipp and James Whitworth Hodson, Westminster: J.B. Nichols and Sons, 1861-1873.
• John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner, The buildings of England: Dorset. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 272.
• Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol. 4, North Dorset. London: HMSO, 1972, p. 47.

Bells:

5, 7-2-27 in A.

Inside Melbury church can be found the wooden battlefield cross that once marked the grave of 2nd Lieutenant L. H. Carver, Irish Guards, who died on the 26th May 1918. He is buried in the Ayette British Cemetery, 14 km south of Arras in France.

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Maintained by Michael Day, Last updated: 27 August 2008.