Saint Nicholas

Rubble stone walls, stone slate roofs with coped gables and corbel tables with carved heads.

2-C12 round-headed windows at high level, one C13 lancet at east end, and a rectangular window lighting a squint into chancel.

Inner door, C12, has carved tympanum, badly eroded, and chevron ornament.

Some coffin slabs re-set in porch, and late medieval canopy in east wall.

North and south chancel walls each have 2-C13 lancet windows.

East window C14, of 3 lights with reticulated tracery.

North wall of nave has 3.C12 round-headed windows at high level

a C13 lancet at east end.

C12 chancel arch of 3 orders with chevron ornament, circular shafts and scalloped capitals.

Font, pulpit and west gallery all C19.

SY9777 : St Nicholas, Worth Matravers - Font

© John Salmon

A good example of a small C12 church, largely unaltered.

RCHM Monument 1 (Dorset Vol II).