Dorchester Abbey
📍 Oxfordshire, England
About
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.
The site was a Roman town and a major Saxon cathedral. An Augustinian abbey was founded here in 1140. The abbey church features the remarkable Jesse Window (c.1340), where the stone tracery forms a tree of Jesse with carved figures growing from the branches—unique in English architecture. The church survived the Dissolution as the parish church. It also contains fine medieval stained glass and the medieval People's Chapel.
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