Excerpt from Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory: A Short History of Their Foundation and Description of Their Buildings When writing the chapters of the present volume which treat of Wimborne Minster, the author consulted the last edition of Hutchins' History of Dorset, which contains a considerable amount of somewhat ill-arranged information on the subject, verifying all the descriptions by 'actual examination of the building; similarly, when preparing the part of this volume dealing with Christchurch Priory, he made some use of The Memorials of Christchurch Twynham, written originally by the Rev. Mackenzie Walcott, and revised after his death in 1880 by Mr B. Edmund Perrey, He also consulted papers on the subject that have appeared from time to time in various periodicals and mss. That were kindly placed at his disposal by the Secretary of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. He desires to express his thanks to the Vicars of the two churches for permission to thoroughly examine every part of the buildings, and to photograph them without let or hind rance he also wishes to bear testimony to the readiness shown by the clerks and vergers in imparting local information and in facilitating his photographic work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.