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The Minster Church of St Cuthburga

A Grade I Listed Building in Wimborne Minster, Dorset

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  • St Cuthburga: refounded 1043 by Edward the Confessor; limestone intermingled with brown stone

  • St Cuthburga: towers from the south; Norman centre tower (right); Perpendicular west tower, completed 1464 (left)

  • St Cuthburga: view from the north

  • St Cuthburga: Norman transitional piers with pointed zigzag arches; westernmost are Decorated

  • St Cuthburga: nave looking west; Norman crossing with scalloped capitals

  • St Cuthburga: Early English lancet east window, centre glass c15 Flemish

  • St Cuthburga: chest cut out of solid wood, first thought to be Saxon, now considered c.1300

  • St Cuthburga: John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, & wife Margaret, 1444; tomb with cusped quatrefoils

  • St Cuthburga: John Beaufort & wife Margaret, 1444; alabaster on Purbeck marble tomb

  • St Cuthburga: John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset d.1444, captured at Bauge 1421, released 1437, created KoG c.1440

  • St Cuthburga: John Beaufort, created Lieutenant of Aquitaine & Duchy of Normandy 1443; probably committed suicide 1444

  • St Cuthburga: Margaret, Duchess of Somerset, daughter of John Beauchamp of Bletsoe, d.1482; mother of Margaret Beaufort & grandmother of Henry VII

  • St Cuthburga: tomb of Gertrude Courtenay (nee Blount), Marchioness of Exeter, 1558; a religious conservative & supporter of Catherine of Aragon & Princess Mary

  • St Cuthburga: Sir Edmund Uvedale, 1606; Corinthian columns, funeral helm above

  • St Cuthburga: Ethelred, King of West Saxons, killed fighting Danes 871, eng. c.1440

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  • The Minster Church of St Cuthburga

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  • The Minster Church of St Cuthburga, Wimborne Minster, Dorset

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Entry Name: The Minster Church of St Cuthburga

Listing Date: 14 June 1952

Last Amended: 2 February 1983

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1119581

English Heritage Legacy ID: 107082

ID on this website: 101119581

Location: St Cuthburga's Collegiate Church the Minster, Wimborne Minster, Dorset, BH21

County: Dorset

Civil Parish: Wimborne Minster

Built-Up Area: Wimborne Minster

Traditional County: Dorset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset

Church of England Parish: Wimborne Minster St Cuthberga

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

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