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~ All Saints, Dorchester ~ |
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During the later Middle Ages
the town of Dorchester thrived. In 1613 a great fire swept through
the town destroying 300 houses and the churches of Holy Trinity and
All Saints. The fire originated in the workshop of a tallow chandler
who made his cauldron too hot and set the tallow alight. Less
serious fires occured in 1622 caused by a malster, 1725 started in a
brewhouse and in 1775 when a soap boiler - |
| - is blamed, in the latter primative fire
engines used at the time were destroyed. The present All Saints
stands in the middle of the town, its 19th century spire rising high
above the roofs of the town. William Benne is buried in the
churchyard, he was rector here and led the nonconformists in their
resistance to the Act of Uniformity. The Jacobean pulpit from which
he used to preach is still here and in the east window is a kneeling
figure of the first Bishop of Salisbury in the Victorian era,
Edward Denison. |
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