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St. Peter's Church

Dorchester, West Dorset District, Dorset, England

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Get directions 26 High East Street
Dorchester, West Dorset District, Dorset DT1 1EZ England

Coordinates: 50.71557, -2.43690
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The full dedication of the church is to the Holy Trinity, St Peter and All Saints. The earliest church on this site was Norman. In 1420, in the reign of Henry V, Robert Grenelefe left 20 marks to ‘the fabric of the new construction of the body of the church'. Much of the present building dates from around this time. The church was extensively restored between 1991 and 1994.

The graveyards attached to the churches in Dorchester (St George's, All Saints, the Holy Trinity, and St Peter) were declared to be nearing capacity in a report published in 1852 and burials were to be discontinued on 1st January 1855.

New capacity was acquired first at the Weymouth Avenue Cemetery (now known as Dorchester Cemetery) in 1856 followed by extensions (in 1866 and 1885) to St George's Churchyard (now Fordington Cemetery). By the early 1990s Fordington Cemetery had formally closed and Dorchester Cemetery was approaching capacity so further provision was procured to create Poundbury Cemetery.

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