The Derek Beauchamp Design Award 2024

As you may have seen in the local press, the Dorchester Civic Society has launched a campaign to reinstate The Derek Beauchamp Design Award in 2024 to mark the 50th anniversary of the society You can nominate a building or a project that has been completed since 2017...

Six men, one dog, a Queen and a horse!

Sounds like the start of a really bad dad joke, right…….? Join Dorchester Sheroes in their quest to erect Dorchester’s first non-royal female statue and celebrate an overlooked shero from our past. This project aims to be a collaborative, community-led campaign...

DORCHESTER TOWN PUMP – JANUARY 2024

By Ian Gosling, DCS Chair The Town Pump on Cornhill was erected in 1784, on the site of the cupola which served as the town’s Market House. It takes the form of a tall tapering square stone shaft obelix on a rectangular base, decorated with five horizontal...