St Andrew's Church, Portland

Later, Edward the Confessor bestowed Portland to the Benedictine Monks of St. Swithin of Winchester in 1042, who in turn built a new church over the old Saxon foundations in 1100.

In 1625 a wall was built to shore up the land after a landslip had damaged the church, and threatened the collapse of half the cemetery.

[2] The church site, which was first excavated by J. Merrick Head in 1898,[3] suffered some bomb damage during World War II.

[8] The church ruins were tidied and consolidated by the Portland Field Research Group in 1968–1973, with further conservation and excavation works in 1978–1982.

[9] Today, the barest ruins now remain of the church, while some stones are preserved in the garden of Portland Museum;[1] they were moved there by volunteers in 1979 and 1980.