Dorchester (St. Peter)

St. Peter's Church, Dorchester (2007)

Dorchester's main church, mostly Perpendicular in style.

Sources:

• Beatty, C. J. P., Thomas Hardy and the restoration of St. Peter's Church, Dorchester, 1856-57: Two contemporary reports from the Dorset County Chronicle. St Peter Port, Guernsey: Toucan Press, 1978.
• Betjeman, J., Sir John Betjeman's guide to English parish churches, revised and updated by Nigel Kerr. London: HarperCollins, 1993, p. 182.
• Dorset Historic Churches Trust, Dorset Churches. [Dorchester]: DHCT, 1988, p. 23.
• Hutchins, J. The history and antiquities of the County of Dorset, 3rd ed., edited by W. Shipp and J.W. Hodson, Westminster: Nichols, 1861-1873.
• Mee, A., ed., Dorset: Thomas Hardy's country. The King's England. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939, pp. 82-95.
• Newman, J. and Pevsner, N., The buildings of England: Dorset. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, pp. 178-179.
• Pitfield, F.P., Dorset parish churches, A-D. Milborne Port: Dorset Publishing Company, 1981, pp. 225-228.
• Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol. 2, South-East Dorset. London: HMSO, 1970, pt. 1, pp. 107-110.
• Sackett, T. and Sackett, E., Francis Frith's Dorset Churches. Salisbury: Frith Book Co., 2000, pp. 56-57.
• Underdown, D., Fire from heaven: life in an English town in the seventeenth century. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1992.

Bells:

8, 20 cwt. in Eb.

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Maintained by Michael Day, Last updated: 5 April 2014.