| Official Name: | Coombe Keynes |
| Static Image Name: | Coombe Keynes Parish Church - geograph.org.uk - 82686.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | Holy Rood parish church |
| Coordinates: | 50.6576°N -2.2241°W |
| Os Grid Reference: | SY842842 |
| Population: | 80 |
| Shire District: | Purbeck |
| Shire County: | Dorset |
| Region: | South West England |
| Country: | England |
| Constituency Westminster: | South Dorset |
| Post Town: | Wareham |
| Postcode District: | BH20 |
| Postcode Area: | BH |
| Dial Code: | 01929 |
| Website: | Coombe Keynes Community web site |
Coombe Keynes is a hamlet, civil parish and depopulated village in the Purbeck district of Dorset, England. The village is about 2miles south of Wool and about 5miles west-south-west of Wareham.
In 2013 the population of the civil parish was estimated to be 80.[1] There are 22 houses in the hamlet and 37 properties in the parish as a whole.
Coombe Keynes was part of Winfrith Hundred. The Domesday Book of 1086 records it as Cume, held by Gilbert de Magminot, Bishop of Lisieux.[2] The name Keynes derives from the later Lords of the Manor, the de Cahaignes family, who also held Tarrant Keyneston.
Later Coombe Keynes' population declined until it is now only a hamlet. The lost part of the settlement was immediately east of the parish church. The area is now a field what appear to be platforms where cottages stood and a hollow way that would have been a lane. This depopulated area is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The Church of England parish church of the Holy Rood was formerly the centre of a large parish that included the village of Wool. In 1844 Wool was made into a separate parish. The two ecclesiastical parishes were recombined in 1967.[3]
The chancel arch and west tower of Holy Rood church is 13th-century. The rest of the church was rebuilt in 1860–61 to designs by Thomas Hicks. It is a Gothic Revival building with nave, chancel and north porch. It was deconsecrated in 1974 and is now used as a secular function room managed by the Coombe Keynes Trust.[4]
The Coombe Keynes Chalice, a rare pre-Reformation chalice with an octagonal foot with embellished angles on the stem, is now kept in the Dorset Museum.[5]