Dorset
West Dorset District
Sherborne

Sherborne Abbey

Sherborne Abbey, otherwise the Abbey Church of St. Mary the Virgin, is a Church of England church in in the English county of . It was formerly a Saxon Catholic cathedral and a Benedictine abbey church, before becoming a Church of England parish church in 1539 during the dissolution of the monasteries.
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  • Email: parishsecretary@sherborneabbey.com
  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Anglican
  • Description: church building in Dorset, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Abbey Church of St Mary the Virgin”
  • Address: Sherborne

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Sherborne Museum and The Conduit.

Museum
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is an independent, community-run museum located in the centre of , . It is housed in the Abbey Gatehouse, a Grade II listed building situated on Church Lane, a pedestrianised thoroughfare connecting the town's market place with Sherborne Abbey.

Historic building
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is a historic building.

Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
serves the town of in , England. It is situated on the West of England Main Line, 118 miles 4 chains down the line from and is currently operated by South Western Railway. is situated 1,300 feet southeast of Sherborne Abbey.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Castleton and Longburton.

Village
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a civil parish in the county of . The parish virtually encircles the town of , and contains within its boundary both and Sherborne Old Castle.

Village
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or Long Burton is a village in , England, three miles south of . It is sited on a narrow outcrop of Cornbrash limestone, at the western end of Blackmore Vale. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 524. is situated 2 miles south of Sherborne Abbey.

Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , , situated roughly 3.5 miles southeast of . Historically it belonged to the Parish of , in the Hundred of Sherborne. is situated 2 miles southeast of Sherborne Abbey.

Sherborne Abbey

Latitude
50.94667° or 50° 56′ 48″ north
Longitude
-2.51659° or 2° 30′ 60″ west
Elevation
207 feet (63 metres)
Open location code
9C2VWFWM+M9
Open­Street­Map ID
way 168201651
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­church
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­anglican
Geo­Names ID
7522497
Wiki­data ID
Q1262119
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In Other Languages

From Central Kurdish to Turkish—“Sherborne Abbey” goes by many names.
  • Central Kurdish: “دێری شێربۆرن”
  • Chinese: “謝爾本大教堂”
  • Croatian: “Sherborneska opatija”
  • French: “abbaye de Sherborne”
  • French: “Abbaye de Sherborne”
  • Georgian: “შერბორნის სააბატო”
  • German: “Sherborne Abbey”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍂𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌽𐌽𐌰 𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌺𐌻𐌴𐍃𐌾𐍉”
  • Greek: “Αβαείο του Σέρμπορν”
  • Hebrew: “כנסיית שרבורן”
  • Italian: “Abbazia di Sherborne”
  • Italian: “Sherborne Abbey”
  • Japanese: “シェアボーン・アビー”
  • Japanese: “シェアボーン寺院”
  • Persian: “دیر شربورن”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sherborne Abbey”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sherborneska opatija”
  • Swedish: “Sherborne Abbey”
  • Turkish: “Sherborne Manastırı”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sherborne Abbey”. Photo: Isis, CC BY-SA 3.0.