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Dorchester - the county town of Dorset. There has been a settlement here since Roman times. There was plenty of museums to visit, although we only went to a couple of them.

The High Street in Dorchester.

This is the Church of the Holy Trinity in Dorchester. Grade II listed.

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HIGH WEST STREET 1. 5191 (North Side) Church of the Holy Trinity. SY 6990 7/244 II GV 2. 1875-6. Architect: Benjamin Ferrey. Portland ashlar, with either Bath or Ham stone dressings. Pitched slate roof. Nave and chancel of same height, seperated by stone gable coping only. Lean-to north aisle. Narrow south aisle which doesn't extend as far west as remainder. Transeptal vestry to north. Bell gablet over west gable end. West elevation has gabled portal for pointed arch door (1 roll moulding, 1 hollow chamfer) with hoodmould, breaking upwards into large 4-light west window with EE tracery. West end of north aisle has 1 2-light pointed arch window with hoodmould, and of south aisle has door in chamfered pointed arch with hoodmould, and oculus above with hoodmould and 3 tangental tracery circles. South elevation has 5 2-light pointed arch windows with hoodmoulds and EE tracery (1 to nave, 4 to south aisle). North elevation has 4 windows with segmental heads, hollow chamfers, and EE tracery (1 3-light, 3 2-light), all to north aisle (1 east of vestry). Vestry has 2 of these windows, 1 to west and 1 to north. Chancel lit from north by single lancet with EEtracery, and from east by 3-light window with EE tracery. East end nearly abuts adjacent house. Interior has wooden roofs (that to north aisle the best) and arcades of 4 arches to north, 2 to south, on piers alternately octagonal and round. Chancel has short detached shafts of Purbeck taken on elaborate corbels. Good late C19 reredos, screen hetween chancel and south chancel aisle, and alabater pulpit. Font on clustered marble columns. Nos 48 to 65A (consec)including the Shire Hall, Holy Trinity Church, the Museum, St. Peter's Church and monument to William Barnes in churchyard immediately south of West Tower form a group.