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It seems odd to us, in an age where it is accepted that the super rich spend all their money on themselves, that it was not at all unusual for wealthy medieval people to spend some of their own fortunes on such things as churches.

Whether you have just arrived via the internet or you are making a personal visit to the Cathedral, please feel most welcome.

The great golden Hamstone bulk of Sherborne Abbey presides benignly over its little medieval town.

This is a large and exciting church founded, like Sherborne in 705; a nunnery here was dissolved in the 11th century and a college of canons served the parish until the Dissolution.

Major William Colt had the church built to say thank you to God for his recovery from a very serious illness, carved faces of him and his wife and either side of the chancel steps.

St Paul’s church at Bisterne was designated a chapel of ease, three miles south of the parish church

A beautiful, peaceful Cotswold church which is believed to date from the 13th century, and is the church where Edward Jenner married Catharine Kingscote in 1788.

A beautiful Victorian church with a stunning chancel designed by the renowned architect William Butterfield (who designed Keble College, Oxford) under the initiative of the rector John Horatio Nelson, nephew of Admiral Nelson.

Chapel of Ease from Domesday times with links to Salisbury Cathedral and Tom Denny windows.

Glastonbury Tor has been a site of religious significance for over 1000 years and is known as being one of the most spiritual sites in the country, as well as its close links to Christianity, its pagan beliefs are still very much celebrated.

St James church is a Grade II* beautiful Victorian building designed by SS Teulon, which is much admired and appreciated by all and a focal point for all the village to congregate.

St Michael’s church is a Grade I listed building, one of only 24 in the New Forest.