What's around us past and present.

The village of Trent, formerly in Somerset, abounds in good architecture, Medieval, Tudor and later, with plenty of well established trees as a background. There are few churches in Dorset with so much to enjoy.

St Andrew’s is a delightful small Norman church with an apse at its east end, unaltered in its plan since the early 12th century. Built of local stone and flint, it has a tiny weatherboarded bell turret.

A model ecclesoiological church designed in 1847 by George Alexander. The restored dramatic painted interior is the most important surviving scheme by Owen Jones the pioneer of High Victorian design. Superrb pulpit, minton floor tiles in the chancel and a brilliant east window.

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.