Moreton (St. Nicholas)

Moreton Church, Dorset, from the north (March 2014)

A small "Gothick" estate church dating from 1776; restored after bomb damage in the Second World War with engraved windows by Lawrence Whistler. T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) is buried in the cemetery on the other side of the road.

Sources:

• Betjeman, J., Sir John Betjeman's guide to English parish churches, revised and updated by Nigel Kerr. London: HarperCollins, 1993, pp. 183-184.
• Dorset Historic Churches Trust, Dorset Churches. [Dorchester]: DHCT, 1988, p. 36.
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• Jenkins, S. England's thousand best churches. London: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999, p. 158.
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• Sackett, T. and Sackett, E., Francis Frith's Dorset Churches. Salisbury: Frith Book Co., 2000, p. 77.

Moreton Church, Dorset, from the south-east (March 2014)

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