SDO10233 - The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 2nd edition. Volume 4

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Type Monograph
Title The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 2nd edition. Volume 4
Author/Originator
Date/Year 1815

Abstract/Summary

Volume IV of the rare second edition of Hutchins' 'History..'. Essentially covers the hundred of Sherborne. A town plan of Sherborne can be found on page 75 of the second edition. This annotated plan marks a spot at the centre of a triangle formed on the east side of the junction between Newland and Hound Street and describes it as: ‘A timber yard, where human bones are found, supposed the site of a church or chapel.’

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Description

Second edition again edited by Gough and Cuming (John Hutchins died before the first edition was printed ). It was produced in four volumes, with additional material and many more illustrations. The expenses were met by Hutchins's son-in-law, John Bellasis. The first volume of the second edition was issued in 1796, and the second volume in 1803, but on 8 February 1808 a fire at the printing house of John Nichols destroyed all the unsold copies and all copies of the third volume except for one which remained in Gough's possession (now in Dorchester museum). Gough died in 1809, and the third and fourth volumes were finally published by J B Nichols in 1813 and 1815 respectively.

Location

Referenced Monuments (7)

  • Higher Cross, Cheap Street, Sherborne (Monument)
  • Lower Cross, South Street, Sherborne (Monument)
  • Magazine, West Bay, Bridport (Monument)
  • Medieval cross, Bradford Abbas (Monument)
  • Medieval cross, Newland, Sherborne (Monument)
  • Newland Timber Yard, Newland; human burials (Monument)
  • St Swithin's church, land south of Newland, Sherborne (Monument)

Referenced Events (1)

  • Discovery of Human Bones at a timber yard, Junction of Newland and Hound Street, Sherborne

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Aug 29 2025 11:24AM