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Dorchester Abbey

The Abbey Church of St Peter and St Paul, more usually called Dorchester Abbey, is a Church of England parish church in Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire, about 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Oxford. It was formerly a Norman abbey church and was built on the site of a Saxon cathedral.

Not to be confused with Dorchester Friary.

Dorchester Abbey

High Street, Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire OX10 7HH

United Kingdom

Church of England

Dorchester Abbey

1140

Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln

Saint Birinus

Shrine of Saint Birinus

Saint Birinus

Oxford

Revd Jane Willis

Birinus

Saint

Sir John Drayton (d.1417) of . The Abbey contains his funerary brass.

Nuneham Courtenay

Wulfwig

John Stonor

Hugh Segrave

List of English abbeys, priories and friaries serving as parish churches

Bishop of Dorchester

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"Excavations at Dorchester Abbey, Oxon"

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"The Anglo-Saxon See and Cathedral of Dorchester-on-Thames: the Evidence Reconsidered"

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"Archaeological Investigations in 2001 at the Abbey Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire"

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"A Military Effigy in Dorchester Abbey, Oxon"

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Lobel, Mary D

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Page, WH

(2009). Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire: The Archaeology and Architecture of a Cathedral, Monastery and Parish Church. Oxford: Oxbow Books. ISBN 978-1-84217-388-6.

Rodwell, Warwick

Sherwood, Jennifer; (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 576–586. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.

Pevsner, Nikolaus

Tiller, Kate, ed. (2005). Dorchester Abbey: Church and People 635–2005. Stonesfield Press.  0-9527126-4-4.

ISBN

NFP: Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire

Virtual tour of Dorchester Abbey via Google Street View

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the : Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Abbey of Dorchester". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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