Gargoyles, St Michael - Owermoigne, Dorset
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SMacB
N 50° 40.024 W 002° 19.712
30U E 547452 N 5613017
Gargoyles at the top corners of the church tower.
Waymark Code: WMNNTP
Location: Southern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/10/2015
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Owermoigne was originally a Saxon settlement by the name of Ogre that later became Oweres. It is not too hard to see how the joining of Ower and the name of the ancient landholding family of Le Moigne came to give the village its name.
Not Ogres, but gargoyles at the top of the church tower, which dates to the 15th century