Long Crichel

Long Crichel
Long Crichel
Shire county	Dorset;
Region	South West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WIMBORNE
Postcode district	BH21
Dialling code	01258
Police	Dorset
Fire	Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	North Dorset;
	List of places UK England Dorset 50°53′28″N 2°02′02″W / 50.891°N 2.034°W

Long Crichel (

civil parish, now in the parish of Crichel, in east Dorset, England, situated on Cranborne Chase five miles northeast of Blandford Forum. In 2001 it had a population of 81. The civil parish was abolished on 1 April 2015 and merged with Moor Crichel to form Crichel.^[1]

Crichel Estate

Long Crichel village and surrounding lands were once part of the Crichel Estate for many centuries, before it was broken up. The estate's owners lived at Crichel House in Moor Crichel.^[2]

St Mary's Church

The village church is

Grade II listed church's medieval tower and east stained glass window. Christian services can still take place in the church and burials are still allowed in the churchyard, which is now the responsibility of the neighbouring Witchampton church council.^[2]

Long Crichel House

Long Crichel House, the Grade II listed Georgian

E.M. Forster were also visitors.^[7]

Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant stayed at the house; Bell did a number of paintings of it and made painted plates for it, while Grant designed the dining room curtains.^[7] Sackville-West died in 1965 and Knollys and his friend Mattei Radev bought another country home in Hampshire in 1967.^[6] Shawe-Taylor remained at Long Crichel House until he died there, aged 88, on 1 November 1995, following a country walk.^[8]^[9]

References

^ "The East Dorset (Reorganisation of Community Governance) Order 2015" (PDF). Lgbce. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c Fight for your rights - Friends of Friendless Churches. Retrieved 8 October 2020
^ Historic England. "Church of St Mary, Long Crichel (1323488)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
^ Diocese of Salisbury: All Schemes (PDF), Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England, 2011, p. 6, retrieved 10 September 2011
^ New Vestings, Friends of Friendless Churches, archived from the original on 1 July 2011, retrieved 10 September 2011
^ ^a ^b "Life and times of artist in public gaze". Farnham Herald. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
^ ^a ^b News. InSight No. XVI in Piano Nobile, 1 June 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020
^ Warrack, John (2004) "Taylor, Desmond Christopher Shawe- (1907–1995)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, online edition, May 2009. Retrieved 30 May 2010 (requires subscription)
^ "Desmond Shawe-Taylor – Obituary" (3 November 1995) The Times

External links

Media related to Long Crichel at Wikimedia Commons

[1] "The East Dorset (Reorganisation of Community Governance) Order 2015" (PDF). Lgbce. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2018.

[ffyr-2] Fight for your rights - Friends of Friendless Churches. Retrieved 8 October 2020

[nhl-3] Historic England. "Church of St Mary, Long Crichel (1323488)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 September 2011.

[4] Diocese of Salisbury: All Schemes (PDF), Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England, 2011, p. 6, retrieved 10 September 2011

[ffc-5] New Vestings, Friends of Friendless Churches, archived from the original on 1 July 2011, retrieved 10 September 2011

[FarnhamH-6] "Life and times of artist in public gaze". Farnham Herald. Retrieved 8 October 2020.

[piano-7] News. InSight No. XVI in Piano Nobile, 1 June 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020

[8] Warrack, John (2004) "Taylor, Desmond Christopher Shawe- (1907–1995)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, online edition, May 2009. Retrieved 30 May 2010 (requires subscription)

[9] "Desmond Shawe-Taylor – Obituary" (3 November 1995) The Times

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