What's around us past and present.

The medieval chapel of St Catherine dominates the picturesque village of Abbotsbury from its perch on a hill high above the village. A climb to the chapel gives superb views out over The Fleet and Chesil Bank to Lyme Bay.

An enchanting small building in golden stone, sandwiched between the A30 and the main-line from London.

Impressively large and solitary on the bleak top of Portland, itself a dramatic and strange part of England, St George's cruciform church built in 1754-66 by Thomas Gilbert, a local mason.

A small pre-conquest Saxon Church famous for housing the priceless effigy of Lawrence of Arabia carved by Eric Kennington in 1935.

Bradford Abbas must rank as one of Dorset's most important village churches. This is a largely 15th century building with a magnificent embattled and pinnacle west tower with many niches, two still having the original figures. Close to the tower is the remains of a 15th century preaching

Little remains of Tarrant Abbey, a rich and celebrated Cistercian nunnery, but at the end of the lane leading past it's site this simple, unspoilt church stands on a slope above the River Tarrant.