All Saints Church
A Church has been on this site in Wyke Regis since 1172 but the present All Saints Church was built between1453 and 1455 to accommodate the growing number of parishioners. It is nationally recognised as an outstanding example of the “Perpendicular” style of Church, its main features being an impressive western tower, a nave with north and south aisles, a chancel, a priest’s vestry to the north of the chancel and a south porch.
The type of stone used to build the Church was brought from quarries at Upwey and Portland and it was largely worked on the spot. The window tracery is exceptionally fine and the heavy south door still retains its original heavy ply construction.
In the churchyard are buried many victims of Weymouth's most famous shipwreck, The East Indiaman, The Earl of Abergavenny. The ship sank in Weymouth Bay in 1805 with the loss of hundreds of lives, including its Captain, John Wordsworth, brother of the poet, William Wordsworth.
A very good history of the Church can be found in Doug Hollings’ book “A History of Wyke Regis”.
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