St Nicholas Church and churchyard on an beautiful summers day. Abbotsbury Dorset, England, UK
"The Parish Church of St. Nicholas in Abbotsbury is an attractive church built of the golden local stone (Corallian). Its origins are probably tied up with the Benedictine abbey that dominated Abbotsbury in the Middle Ages. Pitfield (1981, p. 15) suggests that there may have been a dispute between the parishioners and the monks and that the problem was resolved by building a new parish church outside the abbey precincts. The new church was built in the fourteenth century, the western tower was added in the early fifteenth century and the church building was enlarged and remodelled at least twice in the next hundred years or so. During the civil war, the church was the site of conflict - the Jacobean pulpit has two bullet holes in it from the time that Colonel Strangways resisted a Parliamentary force under Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper in 1644. Following the addition of various interior fittings, including a gallery, the architect Arthur W. Blomfield restored the church in about 1886."
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Location: St Nicholas Church, Abbotsbury, Dorset, UK
Photo credit: © Maurice Savage / Alamy / Afripics
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