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West Parley is a village near the river Stour which stands between Bournemouth,
Hurn and Ferndown. Nearby Dudsbury is an Iron Age hill fort
from which the Ancient Britons overlooked a ford over the river. There used to be a
ferry across the river Stour here until the second half of the 20th century.
The small church, dedicated to All Saints (at the end of Church Lane off the
road east from Parley Cross to the Bournemouth International Airport and Hurn)
with its timber belfry is of Norman
construction although the walls contain pieces of
Saxon materials. It is approached
by an avenue of yews from the gate to the churchyard.
Inside the church, the font is either of late Saxon or
early Norman workmanship. The delicately carved
bosses of the 14th-century roof have
been removed and are now displayed in a glass case in the vestry. The chalice here is
Elizabethan and the pulpit Jacobean. The single bell, decorated withy cherubs, was cast
by Thomas Pyke in the 18th century.
On the outside of the chancel wall a niche is enclosed by glass and iron bars to protect
what looks like a commonplace earthenware pitcher. It is, in fact, a burial urn which
contains the dust of a heart - both heart and container dating
from the 14th century.
The parishioners claimed that the heart belonged to the Lady of Lydlinch who had endowed
their little church in the 14th century and the urn was found during a restoration in the
location indicated by tradition. Lydlinch lies in the Vale of Blackmore at the western
(and opposite) end of Dorset and a tomb inscription there may shed some light on the
subject, even if it cannot furnish for us the lady's name;-
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Here lies the remains of a lady who gave the rector of this parish for ever one portion
of the tithes arising out of the Duds Bury farm in West Parley and another out of Knowle
farm in Woodlands.
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