Churches in DorsetDorset, England

7 churches in the Albion Guide across Dorset — see the full churches directory, or everything to explore in Dorset.

Christchurch Priory

One of England's longest parish churches, a Norman and Gothic former priory near the harbour, with its legend of the miraculous beam.

Fan-vaulted abbey church in a golden-stone town.

A striking Georgian Portland-stone church of 1766 with twin cupolas, a double-decker pulpit and a windswept churchyard of quarrymen's graves.

One of Dorset's finest country churches, famous for its carved and painted 16th-century roof with the Twelve Apostles gazing down.

A 14th-century church beside the River Cerne, its striking west tower and medieval glass a step from the abbey and the hill giant.

A 15th-century church below Abbotsbury's abbey ruins, its plaster ceiling still scarred by a Civil War cannonball above the box pews.

A twin-towered former monastic church in banded grey and brown stone, home to a chained library and a 14th-century astronomical clock.