Architecture of Dorset

1873 – Church of St. John, Moordown, Bournemouth, Dorset

Published in The Building News, August 29 1873: “One of our lithographic illustrations represents the church of S.

1873 – St. Clement’s Church, Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset

Original illustration of John Dando Sedding’s intentions for St. Clements. The main body of the church,

1873 – The Digby Mortuary Chapel, Sherbourne, Dorset

Published in The Building News 1872. Architectural partnership formed between William Slater & Richard Herbert Carpenter in 1863 and continuing until Slater’s death in 1872.

1875 – St. Michael’s Church, Bournemouth, Dorset

Architect: Richard Norman Shaw

Perspective view & plan published in The Building News. The Nave is the only part of Richard Norman Shaw’s original design that was finally carried out.

1878 – All Saints Church, Branksome, Poole, Dorset

Architect: Cole A. Adams & H.P. Horner

“This church, which was built a few years back, stands in one of the prettiest parts of Branksome,

1879 – St Peters Church, Bournemouth, Dorset

Architect: George Edmund Street

Perspective view published in The Building News, June 27th 1879.

1880 – St. James Church, Kingstone, Dorset

Architect: George Edmund Street

Started in 1874, completed in 1880, by the third Earl of Eldon, the architect was George Edmund Street (1824–1881).

1883 – Church of St. Stephen, Bournemouth, Dorset

Architect: John L. Pearson

Published in The Building News, February 22nd 1884. John Loughborough Pearson’s design for the second St Stephen’s Church.

1884 – ‘Claremont’, Branksome, Poole, Dorset

Architect: J. Nixon Horsfield

Designed for D.M. Fox esq., and published in The Architect, July 26 1884. In 1927 it became a strictly enclosed Carmelite Monastery for Sisters of that Order until,

1884 – ‘Gablehurst’, Branksome Park, Poole, Dorset