Worth Matravers parish church, Dorset

The church of St Nicholas, Worth Matravers is on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset and was somewhere I visited in July 2010. The main body of the church dates back to circa 1100AD but the chancel was rebuilt in in the 13th century with further additions in the 14th century.

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The south doorway is Norman while the tower is late 12th century with a Victorian spire. The magnificent semi-circular chancel arch is also mid-12th century. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments has suggested this fine arch was brought in from another building but another possibility is that it was built for this site but then the money ran out and prevented other work of the same quality such as side altars.

Fifteen yards north of the church is the grave of Benjamin Jesty, credited as the first person to cause cow pox by innoculation (and thus immunise against the more lethal smallpox).

Jesty was born near Yetminster and he performed the first verifiable immunisation with a stocking needle of his wife Elizabeth and their two sons to protect them from an outbreak of smallpox, country people of that era being familiar with the notion that those who caught the mild cow pox never went on to catch the lethal smallpox.

Jesty himself had caught cowpox as a youth but his conviction was strengthened by discussions with his two dairymaids. He thus pioneered vaccination some 22 years before Dr Edward Jenner who is normally credited with its discovery.

Also buried in the churchyard is the actor Leslie Banks and his wife Gwendoline.

Taken on: July 5, 2010

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