Crusaders Tollerf Frattam Dorset

This Saxon stone font carvings needs interpreting!









The Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem. A religious military order which arose out of the crusades to the Holy Land.

Which included, Knights, Clergy and Brothers.

The settlement of some of the Brothers and Knights was the farmhouse west of this church in Dorset England.

The thatched barn nearby has carvings of a boy playing the bagpipes, and a chained monkey holding a mirror which is between the twinned chimneys of the farmhouse, and more carvings can be found around this farm.

This is a tiny church building standing in its own grave yard, beside a sixteenth century farmhouse.

The Knights of St John of Jerusalem owned this property in medieval times, there is little to be found of the Knights now, but a few things can be found , if you look for them, in Dorset and throughout the country.















A Saxon carving of Mary Magalene wiping our Lords feet