Dorset Church Album
St.Nicholas

~ St.Nicholas, Abbotsbury ~
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The Dane Orc built an abbey here which was filled with monks from Cerne, it flourished here for five hundred years until the monasteries were broken up and the land passed to Sir Giles Strangeways. The church is much as it was when the during the civil war, the oak pulpit bears witness to this for there are two holes made by bullets of Cromwell's men when they captured the garrison here.
Photograph courtesy of Joan Armstrong
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