St Catherine's Chapel

On our way back along the coast road we stopped at the top of Abbotsbury hill, I decided to zoom in on St Catherine's which sits high on a hill over looking the Chesil beach and Swanary, with Portland in the background.

St Catherine’s Chapel was built in the 14th century, by the monks of nearby Abbotsbury Abbey as a pilgrimage chapel. Virtually unaltered since, it is one of a handful of chapels of this kind which are located outside the precincts of the monasteries that built them. Its isolated setting allowed the monks to withdraw from the monastery during Lent for private prayer and meditation.