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St. Nicholas' Church, Worth Matravers
DiscoverPlaces to seeUnited KingdomEnglandSouth West EnglandDorsetPurbeckWorth Matravers
St. Nicholas' Church, Worth Matravers
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St. Nicholas' Church, Worth Matravers
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Edvard
May 7, 2018
Running
One of the most interesting features is a 12th century corbel table running under the roofline. The corbels are carved with an array of figures including a musician playing a harp, a rabbit, a bird, a running animal, and a sheela-na-gig, a fertility symbol of a woman displaying her genitals.
In the churchyard is the grave of Benjamin Justy (d. 1816), a farmer who may well have been the first person to use cowpox to inoculate against smallpox. Justy vaccinated his wife and family with cowpox vaccine in 1774, well before Dr Edward Jenner popularised vaccination.
britainexpress.com/counties/dorset/churches/worth-matravers.htm
In the churchyard is the grave of Benjamin Justy (d. 1816), a farmer who may well have been the first person to use cowpox to inoculate against smallpox. Justy vaccinated his wife and family with cowpox vaccine in 1774, well before Dr Edward Jenner popularised vaccination.
britainexpress.com/counties/dorset/churches/worth-matravers.htm
Javi Jaavii
October 8, 2023
Running
Built in the early 1100s AD, this is one of the oldest churches in Dorset.
It is not known with certainty whether it was built or reconstructed, as there are indications that there may have been a church here already in the late Saxon period.
It is not known with certainty whether it was built or reconstructed, as there are indications that there may have been a church here already in the late Saxon period.
JakobusPilger
July 11, 2024
Running
Saint NICHOLAS, Bishop of Myra, to whom the church in Worth Matravers is dedicated, is – alongside Saint Martin, Bishop of Tours in France – one of the most popular …
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