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During its history the bay was listed variously as Swanawic, Swanwich and Sandwich, [3] and only in more recent history as Swanage. [4] The town is located at the eastern end of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site. The town contains many listed buildings and two conservation areas – Swanage Conservation Area and Herston Conservation ...
The museum had exhibits relating to Swanage and Purbeck, including geology, local history, archaeology, maritime and stone quarrying. [4] The tithe barn is Grade II listed and is built of Purbeck stone. [5] The listing entry describes the barn as 18th-century, although the local historian David Lewer attributed it to the 16th-century. [6]
The Priest's Way is the historical route taken by clergy from St Nicholas's, Worth Matravers to St Mary's Church, Swanage in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset. The track arose as a result of St Mary's being a chapel of ease to St Nicholas's, and followed the route priests took to say mass in Swanage. A modern footpath and bridleway follows much of ...
The Prince Albert Memorial is a memorial in Swanage, Dorset in the form of a stone obelisk to Prince Albert, the consort of Queen Victoria, who died in 1861. The memorial was erected in 1862, and is notable for having been the earliest civic memorial to the Prince. It was dismantled in 1971, and only rebuilt 50 years later, in 2021.
John Mowlem [1] (1788-1868), a Swanage-born man, was a stonemason and builder. He was the founder of the quarrying and construction company Mowlem.He and his nephew and business partner George Burt [2] (1816-1894) wanted to give something back to their home town, which was the source of their Portland and Purbeck limestone, popular for building at the time.
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The Swanage suburb of Durlston was conceived of and developed by Burt. However it was never completed, part of the land originally intended for the development is now Durlston Country Park . [ 5 ] Burt was responsible for the erection of the Prince Albert Memorial in 1862, which was the first civic memorial to the Prince.
A drawing showing the original design and site of the Wellington clock tower (including the statue of Wellington) from the Illustrated London News of 17 June 1854. The Wellington clock tower was constructed as a memorial to the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, the former British Army general and politician who died in 1852.