Dunshay Manor
Dunshay Manor gets a somewhat laconic entry in Pevsner under Worth Matravers, doesn’t appear in the index and there is no mention of the striking and unusual gate posts. A very uncharacteristic lapse. The house repays close study, not just for it fifteenth-century origins, but for the quality of its renovation in 1906 by Philip…
St. James, Kingston
Last of the Isle of Purbeck churches we went to yesterday was St. James, Kingston, a fine, beautifully considered church by G.E. Street, late in his career and paid for by the Earl of Eldon, the local landowner. A fine ironwork screen but by then I had run out of battery:-
Worth Matravers
Worth Matravers, to the south of the Isle of Purbeck, surrounded by quarries, has not one, but two churches. St. Nicholas in the heart of the village is a relatively conventional, but sturdy Norman church, square tower, with good zigzag carving round the chancel arch:- Then, impossibly remote, along a long dusty track across open…
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