Place:Cattistock, Dorset, England

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Cattistock is a village in west Dorset, England, sited in the upper reaches of the Frome Valley eight miles north west of Dorchester. The Dorset poet William Barnes called it "elbow-streeted Cattstock", a comment on the less-than-linear village street. The village has a population of 440 (2002).

The church was rebuilt in the nineteenth century, by architects Sir George Gilbert Scott and his son George Gilbert Scott Junior. The Perpendicular-styled tower was the work of the latter, and has led to the church being dubbed the 'Cathedral of the Frome Valley'; he was also responsible for the porch, north aisle and vestry. In 1972 the Pevsner guide to Dorset architecture said that "for the mid- to late-nineteenth century, this is the masterpiece amongst Dorset churches".^[1]

Cattistock hosts a Dorset Knob throwing event and the Frome Valley Food Festival every year on the first Sunday in May.

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