FONTMELL (MAGNA), a parish in that part of
the hundred of SIXPENNY-HANDLEY which is in the
Shaston (West) division of the county of DORSET, 4%
miles (S.) from Shaftesbury, containing, with the tything
of Hartgrove, 733 inhabitants. The living is a
vicarage with the curacy of West Orchard, in the archdeaconry
of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the
king's books at £7. 10.: the prebend, or rectory, to
which the vicarage is united, is rated at £18. Mrs.
Salkeld was patroness in 1819. The church, dedicated
to St. Andrew, is chiefly in the later English style. There
is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.