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Location | Lyme Regis, Dorset |
Coordinates | 50°43′33″N 2°56′02″W / 50.72583°N 2.93389°W |
Built | 1750-1755 |
Architect | John Whitty |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
Official name | Congregational Church |
Designated | 31 January 1974 [1] |
Reference no. | 1278935 |
Dinosaurland Fossil Museum (aka Dinosaurland) is a privately owned fossil museum in Lyme Regis, on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England. [2] [3] [4] The museum is located in a historic Grade I listed former congregational church building.
The museum, opened in 1989, is owned and run by Steve Davies, a former chief palaeontologist for BP. [5] [6] It contains a collection of local marine fossils from the Jurassic period. The museum organizes guided fossil hunting walks. [7] There is a museum shop that sells fossils and minerals. [4] [8]
The fossil collection is housed on the ground floor. [9] As well as local Jurassic fossils, there are dinosaurs from China. There are also modern shells and skeletons on display. The museum has a small collection of dinosaur fossils on show (such as a large dinosaur coprolite, a Megalosaurus skeleton and a Chinese dinosaur, of unknown genus).
The museum is located on Coombe Street in a 250-year-old Grade I listed building that used to be a congregational church. [1] The church was built between 1750 and 1755 by John Whitty. It was where Mary Anning (1799–1847), an early fossil hunter, was baptised and later attended for worship. [10]
The two storey building has a hipped roof and rusticated quoins. The round-headed doorway has Doric pilasters on either side. There is a 19th-century addition to the left hand end of the building. [11]
Dinosaurland Fossil Museum | |
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Location | Lyme Regis, Dorset |
Coordinates | 50°43′33″N 2°56′02″W / 50.72583°N 2.93389°W |
Built | 1750-1755 |
Architect | John Whitty |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
Official name | Congregational Church |
Designated | 31 January 1974 [1] |
Reference no. | 1278935 |
Dinosaurland Fossil Museum (aka Dinosaurland) is a privately owned fossil museum in Lyme Regis, on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England. [2] [3] [4] The museum is located in a historic Grade I listed former congregational church building.
The museum, opened in 1989, is owned and run by Steve Davies, a former chief palaeontologist for BP. [5] [6] It contains a collection of local marine fossils from the Jurassic period. The museum organizes guided fossil hunting walks. [7] There is a museum shop that sells fossils and minerals. [4] [8]
The fossil collection is housed on the ground floor. [9] As well as local Jurassic fossils, there are dinosaurs from China. There are also modern shells and skeletons on display. The museum has a small collection of dinosaur fossils on show (such as a large dinosaur coprolite, a Megalosaurus skeleton and a Chinese dinosaur, of unknown genus).
The museum is located on Coombe Street in a 250-year-old Grade I listed building that used to be a congregational church. [1] The church was built between 1750 and 1755 by John Whitty. It was where Mary Anning (1799–1847), an early fossil hunter, was baptised and later attended for worship. [10]
The two storey building has a hipped roof and rusticated quoins. The round-headed doorway has Doric pilasters on either side. There is a 19th-century addition to the left hand end of the building. [11]