ABBOTSBURY
The Parish Church - St. Nicholas
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The church stands in this most attractive village near the famous tithe barn and other remains of a Benedictine Abbey. A 14c fabric in origin with a 15c tower. There was extensive rebuilding about the end of the 15c. The chancel has a plastered barrel ceiling dated 1638. Note 15c painted glass in the south aisle, late 12c effigy of an abbot in the porch, Jacobean pulpit with tester still showing bullet holes sustained in a skirmish during the Civil War and the superb 18c reredos. Note also a small thanksgiving memorial recording the fact that no lives were lost from Abbotsbury during the Word War II.
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[Dorset Historic Churches Trust]. All rights reserved.
Revised: January 12, 2004
