Dorchester Abbey

Over 1400 years of History and Heritage rest within the walls of this famous building.

Dorchester Abbey is a Church of England parish church in Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire, about 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Oxford.

It was formerly a Norman abbey church and was built on the site of a Saxon cathedral.

Besides being a parish church, the abbey church is a venue for concerts and cultural events of all kinds. Between 1998 and 2006 the Dorchester Abbey Campaign Committee raised £4,000,000 and this has enabled the Church Council and the Dorchester Abbey Preservation Trust to undertake significant works in the abbey.

These include the impressive Cloister Gallery managed by the Dorchester Museum Committee and restoration of medieval and Victorian wall paintings. Dorchester Abbey Museum was longlisted for the Gulbenkian Prize in 2006.

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