Dorset, England
The Parish of St. Nicholas was built in Abbotsbury, Dorset, England in the 14th century. It was built of local golden stone. Its origins are probably tied up with the Benedictine abbey that dominated Abbotsbury in the Middle Ages. There may have been a dispute between the parishioners and the monks and that the problem was resolved by building a new parish church outside the abbey precincts. The tower on the west was added in the first part of 15th century. During the next 100 years this church was enlarged and remodeled twice.
During the civil war, the church was the site of conflict - the Jacobean pulpit has two bullet holes in it from the time that Colonel Strangways resisted a Parliamentary force under Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper in 1644.
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