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Sherborne Abbey. Founded by St. Aldhelm in AD 705, Sherborne Abbey has developed from Saxon cathedral to the worshipping heart of a monastic community and, finally, to one England’s most beautiful parish churches. For many, it is still the ‘cathedral of Dorset’ and our Benedictine heritage lives on in the daily offering of prayer and praise.
Coat of arms of Sherborne Abbey. Sherborne Abbey, otherwise the Abbey Church of St. Mary the Virgin, is a Church of England church in Sherborne in the English county of Dorset. It has been a Saxon cathedral (705–1075), a Benedictine abbey church (998–1539), and since 1539, a parish church.
Sherborne Abbey. When people look at The Abbey, they see different things. Some see the finest building in Dorset, with its glorious fan vaulting – of which Simon Jenkins says in his book England’s Thousand Best Churches, ‘I would pit Sherborne’s roof against any contemporary work of the Italian Renaissance.’.
Tel: 01935 713777. Mon: 9am-1pm. Tue-Fri: 9am-3pm. Find us: Sherborne Abbey. The Abbey Close. Sherborne. Dorset DT9 3LQ. Find us on Google Maps.
Most of the Abbey is at one level. For more details regarding Sherborne Abbey, its services, events and much more please visit our website: https://www.sherborneabbey.com/ or call the Parish Office on 01935 713777 (9.00 am - 3.00 pm Monday - Friday (1.00 pm Monday).
Sherborne. Dorset. DT9 3LQ. View map. The church was founded in 705 as a Benedictine monastery serving as the cathedral of the western part of the area of Wessex. It was rebuilt on a grand scale in the 10th century and again in the 12th (by which time the see had been removed to Salisbury).
Sherborne Abbey was founded in 705 by St. Aldhelm and has developed as it stands today from the Saxon Cathedral. A few of the early Saxon features still survive. Two kings of Wessex, elder brothers of King Alfred, were buried here during this time.
