St Catherines Chapel on top of Chapel Hill, catching the last rays of the evening sunshine, at Abbotsbury in Dorset. Rural England, United Kingdom.

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St Catherines Chapel, high on a hilltop overlooking Abbotsbury Abbey, the sturdily buttressed and barrel-vaulted 14th-century chapel was built by the monks as a place of pilgrimage and chapel is frequently visited by women searching for a husband, St Catherine being the patron saint of spinsters.

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Size: 4287px × 2848px
Location: Chapel Hill, Abbotsbury, Dorset, Jurassic Coast, England, United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB.
Photo credit: © Andrew Wood / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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