---
title: "Milton Abbey, Milton Abbas"
description: "Located in Milton Abbas, Dorset. Built 14th–15th century; restored c.1790 and 1865. Diocese of Salisbury. Grade I. Decorated and Perpendicular style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Dorset","Milton Abbas","Grade I","Abbey"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/milton-abbey-milton-abbas"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T02:18:57.917Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-07T14:52:48.701Z"
location: "Milton Abbas, Dorset"
country: "England"
county: "Dorset"
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"
dedications: ["Mary"]
diocese: "Salisbury"
grade: "I"
style: "Decorated and Perpendicular"
materials: "Stone and flint, ashlar dressings, lead roofs"
openingHours: "Monday to Sunday 10am to 5pm. Refreshments available in July & August."
parish: "Milton Abbas"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1304822"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas"
---

# 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.

## 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.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1304822](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1304822)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Abbey)