The living is a vicarage with the rectory of Clifton-Mabank united, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £7. 17. 11., and in the patronage of the Warden and Fellows of Winchester College. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. The Rev. William Preston, in 1738, gave £14 per annum for the endowment of a charity school; and, in 1781, Mark West and William Read gave property producing an equal amount, for the same purpose.

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