Sherborne, Dorset
Accommodation, restaurants & cafés, & tourist attractions
Sherborne (Dorset)
Originally a Saxon settlement, the mellow stone buildings of Sherborne are surrounded by green valleys and wooded hills. In 705AD St. Aldhelm chose this site for his new cathedral. The Abbey church has some of the finest fan vaulting to be seen anywhere made from the local Ham stone. It has a very fine reredos engraved by Lawrence Whistler. A visit especially during a service when the vaulting resounds with fine singing is an experience never to be forgotten.Sherborne's "new" castle was built in 1594 by Sir Walter Raleigh. The remains of the "old" castle on the other side of Sherborne Lake are evidence of its having been destroyed in a fierce siege in 1645.
Sherborne offers some especially good and varied shopping amongst its antique shops, boutiques and shops selling delicious local produce.
