Wareham (Lady St. Mary)

Church of Lady St. Mary, Wareham, Dorset from the River Frome, 1999.

Sources:

• Davis, T., Wareham: gateway to Purbeck. Milborne Port: Dorset Publishing Company, 1984 (repr. 1997).
• Hope, M., Dorset. In: Humphrey, S.C., ed., Blue guide: churches and chapels of southern England. London: Black; New York: Norton, 1991, pp. 201-202.
• Hutchins, J. The history and antiquities of the County of Dorset, 3rd ed., edited by W. Shipp and J.W. Hodson, Westminster: J.B. Nichols, 1861-1873, Vol. 1, 1861, pp. 110-117.
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• Pitfield, F.P., Purbeck parish churches. Milborne Port: Dorset Publishing Company, 1985, pp. 78-90.
• Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol. 2, South-East Dorset. London: HMSO, 1970, pt. 2, pp. 304-312.
• Sackett, T. and Sackett, E., Francis Frith's Dorset Churches. Salisbury: Frith Book Co., 2000, p. 82.
• Taylor, H.M. and Taylor, J., Anglo-Saxon architecture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956, Vol. II, pp. 634-637, plates 602-603.

Bells:

10, 15-2-14 in E.

The interior

Lead font, Lady St. Mary, Wareham.

Saxon carving of the crucifixion, Lady St. Mary, Wareham.

Inscribed stone, Lady St. Mary, Wareham.

More images

Wareham Quay with the Old Granary and the Church of Lady St. Mary, Wareham, Dorset from the River Frome (1997)

Church of Lady St. Mary, Wareham, Dorset from the East (1999)

Tower of the Church of Lady St. Mary, Wareham, Dorset (2009)

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Maintained by Michael Day, Last updated: 6 August 2001.