Wimborne Minster 

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Historical notes about the Town of Wimborne Minster

Wimborne or Wimborne Minster

Past the remarkable British camp known as Badbury Rings the Cranborne - Poole road threads smiling country to ancient Wimborne Minster, with a great church that occupies both eye and mind to pleasure and profit. It is certainly one of England's most noble mediaeval possessions, and presents an impressive outline, even though its tall spire collapsed in a hurricane three hundred years ago. Choice examples of the work of various styles, from Norman to Perpendicular, are to be found, and there is some beautiful glass in addition to exceptional features, such as the fourteenth century orrery clock and the seventeenth century library of chained books, a very necessary precaution in times when books were rare and precious, and the public conscience somewhat elastic n the subject of larceny. Among many interesting monuments and memorials are those of Etthelred, brother of Alfred the Great, the Marchioness of Exeter, one of John Gaunt's grandsons, and the famous Anthony Ettricke, the magistrate before whom the miserable Monmouth was brought after his capture. The peculiar position of the worthy's monument - in a recess in the church wall - is popularly explained by a story that Ettricke in one of his many perverse moments, said that he was to be buried neither in the church nor out of it!

10 m south east of Blandford

 

 

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