SS. Peter and Paul, Cattistock, Dorset

Description

The parish church of SS. Peter and Paul, repaired and nearly rebuilt at the entire cost of the Rev. H. Still, a former rector, is of stone, in the Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular styles, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, transepts, north porch and a massive embattled tower with pinnacles, erected at the cost of the family of the Rev. K.H. Barnes, a former rector, and containing a superb carillon of 35 bells, cast at Louvain by the celebrated founder Van Aerschodt, and a clock with Westminster chimes: the seven windows in the chancel, the large west window, three in the south aisle and one in the baptistery are all stained: there are 276 sittings.

SS. Peter and Paul, Cattistock	SS. Peter and Paul, Cattistock
Baptistry	Baptistry

Church Records

The parish register of baptisms, marriages and burials begins in 1558. The original register books are now deposited with the Dorset Archives Service, but have been digitised by Ancestry.co.uk and made available on their site (subscription required).

The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Cattistock, 1558-1812 is online.