Milton Abbey, Milton Abbas
Milton Abbey, Milton Abbas
The Abbey Church of St Mary, St Samson and St Branwalader at Milton Abbas, Dorset, is a Grade I former Benedictine church of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, now used with Milton Abbey School.
- Location
- Milton Abbas, Dorset
- Country
- England
- County
- Dorset
- City / town
- Milton Abbas
- Address
- Milton Abbey, Milton Abbas, Dorset, DT11 0BZ
- Postcode
- DT11 0BZ
- Built
- 14th–15th century; restored c.1790 and 1865
- Architect
- James Wyatt (c.1790); George Gilbert Scott (1865)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Mary
- Diocese
- Salisbury
- Parish
- Milton Abbas
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Decorated and Perpendicular
- Materials
- Stone and flint, ashlar dressings, lead roofs
- Opening hours
- Monday to Sunday 10am to 5pm. Refreshments available in July & August.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas
Overview
After a fourteenth-century fire the nave was not rebuilt; the surviving church is choir with aisles, transepts and crossing tower. James Wyatt restored the fabric around 1790 for the Earl of Dorchester’s new house in the valley; Sir George Gilbert Scott restored it again in 1865. Interior fittings include a fourteenth-century pulpitum, fifteenth-century reredos and pyx shrine, fourteenth-century sedilia, and an eighteenth-century monument by Agostino Carlini to Lady Milton. The adjoining mansion by Chambers and Wyatt is now the school. St Catherine’s Chapel on the hill is a separately listed Norman church.