THE infamy that was Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries destroyed a swathe of monastic buildings throughout the country, among them Cerne Abbey, which had been founded in 987AD. Fortunately, the surviving parts of this once splendid and very wealthy Benedictine abbey have been carefully and lovingly restored by successive private owners, of whom four have served as Lords Lieutenant of Dorset. There are three notable survivors…
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