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18-469: The AMHT was founded in 1998 and the Museum opened in 2002. It is housed in a 15th-century barn, built by the monks of Dorchester Abbey . The collection ranges from the oldest surviving Aston Martin car, No. 3 to a Vanquish Volante pre-production model dating from 2013. 51°39′36″N 1°08′14″W  /  51.6600°N 1.13723°W  / 51.6600; -1.13723 This article relating to

36-526: A Union Jack that had been draped over the coffins of prisoners of war at Batu Lintang camp , Sarawak, Borneo was placed in the abbey together with two wooden memorial plaques; they had formerly been housed at All Saints Church, Oxford . Besides being a parish church, the abbey church is a venue for concerts and cultural events of all kinds. The alternative rock band Radiohead used the church to record orchestral sections for their albums Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001) . Between 1998 and 2006

54-480: A modern kitchen and servery in the Tower room. The abbey is open every day from 8 a.m. until dusk. 51°38′37″N 1°09′52″W  /  51.6437°N 1.1644°W  / 51.6437; -1.1644 Transept A transept (with two semitransepts ) is a transverse part of any building , which lies across the main body of the building. In cruciform (" cross -shaped") churches , in particular within

72-546: A museum in the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This automobile -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 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

90-579: Is late Perpendicular Gothic . The very rich sanctuary , with its highly decorated windows (including the famous east window one known as the Jesse Tree window) and ornately carved sedilia and piscina , dates from 1330. Other fittings include one of the few surviving lead fonts in England, frescoes of 1340 and several monuments , especially the well-known "swaggering knight" effigy formerly believed to be Sir John Holcombe who died in 1270 but it

108-636: Is more likely that it is William de Valence the Younger (died 1282 at the Battle of Llandeilo Fawr ), son of William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke . Over a period of some forty years from 1845, restoration was carried out on an intermittent basis successively under the direction of four architects: James Cranston, William Butterfield , Sir George Gilbert Scott and Joseph Maltby Bignell (from 1878 to 1883). Scott had earlier employed his pupil, Bignell, as clerk of works at Dorchester [from 1859]. In 1993

126-664: The Holy Trinity , for a dean and prebendaries; but this was dissolved in the first year of his successor. In 1536, the Abbey was affected by the Dissolution of the monasteries and the monastic buildings were lost and St Birinus' shrine was destroyed. However, the church was saved because a local man called Richard Beauforest paid Henry VIII £140, and he gifted it to the people of the Dorchester parish in 1554. Later in 1602,

144-612: The Mercian See (hitherto at Dorchester) was transferred to Lincoln . The abbey, founded fifty-five years later, was dedicated in honour of Saints Peter and Paul and Birinus . It was richly endowed out of the lands and tithes of the former bishopric, and had twelve parishes subject to it, being included in the Peculiar of Dorchester, until the suppression of peculiars. The first abbot appears to have been Alured , whose name occurs in records from in 1146 and again in 1163. The last

162-460: The Romanesque and Gothic Christian church architectural traditions, a transept is an area set crosswise to the nave . Each half of a transept is known as a semitransept. The transept of a church separates the nave from the sanctuary , apse , choir , chevet , presbytery , or chancel . The transepts cross the nave at the crossing , which belongs equally to the main nave axis and to

180-454: The basilicas and the church and cathedral planning that descended from them were built without transepts; sometimes the transepts were reduced to matched chapels . More often, the transepts extended well beyond the sides of the rest of the building, forming the shape of a cross. This design is called a Latin cross ground plan, and these extensions are known as the "arms" of the transept. A Greek cross ground plan, with all four extensions

198-905: The Dorchester Abbey Campaign Committee raised £4,000,000 and this has enabled the Church Council and the Dorchester Abbey Preservation Trust to undertake significant works in the abbey. These include the Cloister Gallery managed by the Dorchester Museum Committee and restoration of medieval and Victorian wall paintings. Dorchester Abbey Museum was longlisted for the Gulbenkian Prize in 2006. The abbey has an improved heating system and

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216-479: The choir and part of a southern transept were completed until a renewed building campaign in the 19th century. The word "transept" is occasionally extended to mean any subsidiary corridor crossing a larger main corridor, such as the cross-halls or "transepts" of The Crystal Palace , London, of glass and iron that was built for the Great Exhibition of 1851. In a metro station or similar construction,

234-404: The north side of Saxon masonry, probably part of the ancient cathedral. The whole length of the church is 230 feet (70 m), its width 70 feet (21 m) and its height 55 feet (17 m). The north transept and its doorway are Norman . The north side of the nave and chancel arch are Early English Gothic . The choir, south side of nave, south aisle are Decorated Gothic . The south porch

252-405: The same length, produces a central-plan structure. When churches have only one transept, as at Pershore Abbey , there is generally a historical disaster, fire, war or funding problem, to explain the anomaly. At Beauvais only the chevet and transepts stand; the nave of the cathedral was never completed after a collapse of the daring high vaulting in 1284. At St. Vitus Cathedral , Prague , only

270-512: The tower was rebuilt. No register or cartulary of Dorchester Abbey is known to exist, and only a single charter, confirming the donation of a church by King John , is given by Dugdale . Edmund Ashefeld was the first impropriator of the abbey site and precincts, which afterwards passed through various hands. The church of Dorchester Abbey, as it stands today, was built entirely by the Augustinian Canons, although there are traces on

288-454: The transept. Upon its four piers , the crossing may support a spire (e.g., Salisbury Cathedral ), a central tower (e.g., Gloucester Cathedral ) or a crossing dome (e.g., St Paul's Cathedral ). Since the altar is usually located at the east end of a church, a transept extends to the north and south. The north and south end walls often hold decorated windows of stained glass , such as rose windows , in stone tracery . Occasionally,

306-435: Was John Mershe, who was elected in 1533, and in the following year subscribed to the king's supremacy, with five of his canons, and was given a pension of £22 a year (equivalent to £18,851 in 2023). The revenues of the abbey were valued at the time of its suppression at about £220 (equivalent to £188,513 in 2023). Henry VIII reserved the greater part of the property of the house for a college, erected by him in honour of

324-631: Was formerly a Norman abbey church and was built on the site of a Saxon cathedral . Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln founded Dorchester Abbey in 1140 for the Arrouaisian Order of Augustinian Canons Regular (who wore white instead of the black of most Augustinian canons). Dorchester had been a Roman town and was later adopted by the Mercians . It had been the seat of a bishopric from AD 634 when Pope Honorius I had sent Saint Birinus , its first bishop, to that district, until 1085 when

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