St Mary's Church, Swanage

[8] A 17th-century Rector, the Rev Brune Cockram, demolished all of the church apart from the south transept, and rebuilt it.

[9] A recorded visit in 1847 described the church as consisting of a chancel, nave and belfry (i.e. the tower), but that there had previously been transepts as well.

[11] The church was rebuilt in a Gothic revival style by TH Wyatt in 1859–60,[12] on land given for this purpose by Sir John Mowlem Burt.

[13] Local architects James Edward Clifton and Edmund Arthur Robinson (a son of the art curator Sir John Charles Robinson) enlarged it in 1906–08 with the addition of a north aisle and galleried transepts.

[15] The main entrance is at the west end of the north aisle, and has a shallow portico with a doorway in an Early English style.

[19] The Swanage building contractor Sir George Burt was responsible for the construction of the daughter church of St Aldhelm's, on Park Road, which was opened in 1892.

[24] The east window is by Francis Skeat of Goddard & Gibbs and depicts Christ in Majesty.

[25] The north chancel window depicts Christ calming the water and is a 19th-century survivor, possibly by Lavers & Westlake, and is a memorial to the Rev Robert Travers.

[28] The windows in the south transept depict the Stoning of St Stephen, St George and the dragon, and St David, by Martin Travers given in memory of Hill Crest School pupils, and a rose window depicting the Royal British Legion badge by James Clarke & Eaton given in memory of lives lost in war.

[31] [32] At an upper level in the north transept is a rose window by Henry Haig depicting the Creation.

[44] The organ was rebuilt again in 2017 by the Isle of Wight organ-builders, Andrew Cooper & Co.[45] The director of music is (2021) Simon Lole.