page_title: St Mary the Virgin, Lytchett Matravers
section_title: Plague
hierarchical_section_title: St Mary the Virgin, Lytchett Matravers / History / Plague
caption_attribution_description: English: Brass monument from about 1475 in the chancel of St Mary the Virgin parish church, Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, to Thomas Pethyn, rector
context_page_description: St Mary the Virgin is the Church of England parish church of Lytchett Matravers in Dorset. Its parish is part of the Diocese of Salisbury. The building is Grade I listed.
context_section_description: Local tradition has it that the village moved away from the site of the church during the Black Death. The church slowly fell into disuse and was used solely by the Rector for morning prayer and vespers, with regular worship moving to a chapel in the village.
  The church has a late-15th-century monumental brass in memory of Thomas Pethyn or Talpathyn, who was rector 1430–70. It is a cadaver monument, showing his corpse in its burial shroud, which is a style unusual for monumental brasses in England. Elsewhere there is an example from the early 16th century, also in memory of a parish priest, in the parish church at Oddington, Oxfordshire.
  A great deal of restoration was carried out at the beginning of the 16th century at the behest of Dame Margarita Clements.
  In the 17th century the Arundel family, heirs by marriage to the Maltravers estate, funded the restoration of St Mary's and rebuilding of the north aisle. The chapel in the village was closed and parish worship returned to St Mary's.
caption: Brass monument installed about 1475 in memory of Rev. Thomas Pethyn or Talpathyn
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