FIND out more about the deliberate and meaningful patterns of churches in the south Dorset landscape at a talk tomorrow. (July 29)

Jonathan Harwood will be giving the talk at Dorset Museum in Dorchester on Friday, July 29 at 7pm.

The positions of churches in the South Dorset landscape, when connected together by straight lines (drawn from church symbol to church symbol on a map at a scale of 1:25,000) reveal deliberate and meaningful patterns.

Jonathan began to explore these patterns in 1997 and, over the years, has carefully considered whether these arrangements of churches in the landscape could be the result of chance.

In this talk he explores his hypothesis that one particularly remarkable pattern encapsulates the, to us, very curious beliefs and practices of Gnostic Christians who were present amongst the villa-owning elite in Dorset during the Roman period.

Jonathan has a degree in social anthropology and spent 29 years in HM Land Registry. He is now retired and lives in Weymouth with his wife and two cats.

Tickets for the talk cost £10 for adults, £8 for Dorset Museum members and £5 for students.

Book at the website www.dorsetmuseum.org/event/hidden-patterns-in-the-south-dorset-landscape/