Steeple (St. Michael and All Angels)

St. Michael and All Angels, Steeple, from the East, March 1998

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. 609-611.
• Mee, A., ed., Dorset: Thomas Hardy's country. The King's England. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939, pp. 232-233.
• Newman, J. and Pevsner, N., The buildings of England: Dorset. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 397.
• Pitfield, F.P., Purbeck parish churches. Milborne Port: Dorset Publishing Company, 1985, pp. 47-50.
• 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. 2, pp. 268-270.

Current church guide (available 1998):

Church of St. Michael & All Angels, Steeple, Dorset. Wareham: Anglebury-Bartlett (printers), no date.
A eight page booklet containing a brief history of the parish since the time of Domesday, an architectural description of the church building and information on communion plate and parish registers. The cover contains a black-and-white photograph of the church building and churchyard taken from the south east. Another page contains a copy of a drawing of the stone armorial mural tablet for Sir Edward Lawrence of Creech Grange, dated 1616, located over the east doorway of the north transept.

Bells:

Raven's "Church Bells of Dorset" (1904): Three bells. Tenor-Diam., 36in.; height 26in.; note E flat; weight 8 cwt.

1. Sancte + Anna (coin) Ora (coin) Pro Nobis (founder's stamp)
2. Anthony Bond made mee 1633
3. Anthony Bond made mee 1634

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