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Commissioned for St Birinus Church and designed and built by internationally renowned Master Organ Builder, Bernard Aubertin, our new organ is a beautiful instrument entirely hand-crafted and designed to complement the restoration of the sanctuary.
In past times Dorchester possessed an image of Our Lady of Dorchester which was a focus of Marian Pilgrimage and devotion which was destroyed in the 1530's when Henry VIII destroyed the shrines of England.
The beautiful icon of the Baptism of King Cynegils by Saint Birinus (or Birin / Berin in an Anglicised form, hence Berin's Field), in the River Thame in AD 634, was painted by Sister Petra Clare, who lives at the Benedictine Abbey of St Cecilia on the Isle of Wight. (Abbey of Nuns).