Wimborne Minster (St. Margaret's Chapel)

St. Margaret's Chapel, Wimborne Minster, Dorset

The Chapel of St Margaret and St Anthony was originally part of a leper hospital, then part of a complex of almshouses. The chapel was restored and returned to ecclesiastical use in the 1880s.

Sources:

• Arthur Mee, ed., Dorset: Thomas Hardy's country. The King's England. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939, p. 172.
• John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner, The buildings of England: Dorset. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 310.
• Perkins, T., Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory: a short history of their foundation and description of their buildings. (Bell's cathedral series). London: G. Bell & Sons, 1899.
• Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol. 5, East Dorset. London: HMSO, 1975, pp. 44-45.
• Terence and Eliza Sackett, Francis Frith's Dorset Churches. Salisbury: Frith Book Co., 2000, pp. 106-107.
• Extract from the Victoria County History on the Hospital of St Margaret and St Anthony, Wimborne (from British History Online): http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40164

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