Dorset"Everybody tells you Dorset is a house or mansion county, not a church county...Yet when one sets down all one has seen of Dorset churches...one suddenly realises how much one has enjoyed", wrote Pevsner at the conclusion of his journey. The county provides many unexpected pleasures in ecclesiastical buildings, from the Norman arches of Wimborne Minster, the Early English solemnity of Milton Abbey, to the splendour of Sherborne and the monuments and furnishings of numerous smaller buildings. Of castles, mansions and houses, Dorset boasts the evocative ruins of Corfe; the splendid Kingston Lacy; mighty Milton Abbey House and a wealth of more modest homes. But the county also possesses fine towns and villages, from the Georgian elegance of Weymouth and Lyme Regis, to the model estate village of Milton Abbas. |
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Abbey aisle angle arcade ashlar Athelhampton balusters block bowl barrow building built buttresses capitals carved Castle ceiling centre chamfered chancel chancel arch chapel chimneypiece church columns corbels cottages Cup and Cover decorated doorway Dorset E window early C19 entrance façade FARM flint FONT four-centred front gable Georgian Gothic hall Hill hoodmoulds inside Jacobean John lancets late C17 MANOR HOUSE medieval Milton Abbey MONUMENTS motifs moulded mullioned windows nave Nave and chancel Norman octagonal Owen Morshead panels parish Paten Paten on foot pediment piers pilasters PLATE porch Portland Portland stone projecting PULPIT Purbeck marble quatrefoils quoins range RCHM red brick Road roof ROUND BARROWS round-headed shafts Sherborne side square ST MARY STAINED GLASS staircase stone storeys Street string-course style three bays three-light tracery transept transom two-light two-storeyed upper vault Victorian village wall Wimborne Wimborne St Giles wing Winterborne
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The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town ... Peter Borsay No preview available - 1989 |