UP CERNE

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Up Cerne Church with Up Cerne Manor House

Up Cerne Church from the lake

Up Cerne Church - Nave

 Up Cerne Church - Chancel

Up Cerne Church - Family Pew

Up Cerne Church - Jacobean Pulpit

Up Cerne Church - 12c Font

Up Cerne Church - Corbel Head

Up Cerne Church - Corbel Head

Up Cerne Church - Corbel Head

The church at Up Cerne must occupy one of the loveliest sites in the county.  Nearby is a gracious mellow manor house, built some time before 1624 and all arranged in a stunning parkland setting complete with a generous lake.

The building, constructed of flint and rubble, is essentially Victorian, no doubt rebuilt around the time that the manor house was altered and restored.  There is a good Jacobean pulpit and the square Purbeck font is 12c.  The barrel roof with corbels sculpted into heads gives a very pleasing effect.