Iwerne Minster features [2]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 10 Dec 2020

At the junction of Higher Street and Shute Lane is this shelter containing notice boards built circa 1920 to a design by Giles Gilbert Scott. Known as 'The War Office', the shelter stems from the practice, established during World War I, of posting newspapers and telegraph bulletins on a board over the village pump for the information of villagers. It is now used as a general parish notice board. The shelter has rubble walls with stone dressings with a sculpted relief of Mercury with electric rays emanating from his hands representing the dissemination of news by wireless. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1110196 Iwerne Minster is a small village on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, about 5 miles south of Shaftesbury and the same distance north of Blandford Forum. The village is within the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Down Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. There is evidence of occupation since prehistoric times. The River Iwerne flows from a spring in the middle of the village. The original Minister is now St Mary's Church and was built by the Normans on the site of an earlier church.

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